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Neil's Lecture

  • Intro
    • everybody now has a global evaluator. the global eval is not only an evaluation but its also a person to talk to when there are problems and they help you to fulfill fa standards
    • there is a schedule for it
February 12: global eval started
March 9: US Daylight Savings Time
by March 1: student+local+global intro meetings
April 9-23:
    - break, midterm
    - preceding weekly assignments due
    - student+local+global review meetings
    - review assignments and final plan
    - sort into likely/possible/unlikely to finish this cycle
June 4: weekly assignments due
June 9-13: final presentations
June 16-20: student+local+global review meetings
June 23: global eval decisions deadline
July 4-11: FAB25

Student Reviews

  • ... ??? from charlotte latin
    • button box
    • https://fabacademy.org/2020/labs/oulu/students/anssi-heikkinen/finalproject.html
  • reykjavik, evert
    • https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/reykjavik/students/evert-jensson/
    • https://fabacademy.org/2021/labs/leon/students/alberto-gonzalez/finalproject.html
    • works in the fablab, interested in using the fablab more an dimproves his teaching.
    • include the prompts when you do LLM stuff!
    • final project: some chair thingy
    • but you can also do a final project that fly:
      • kitagaya: https://fabacademy.org/2022/labs/kitakagaya/students/yusuke-takahashi/projects/final-project/
  • ernesto castro
    • https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/ulima/students/ernesto-castro/
    • final project: ...
    • there is a mini mini tiny fab thingy neil showed
    • concern: you need a material that easily dissolves, but the materaial would be very vulnerable
    • you can also cut using hot wire.
    • search: "pancake plotter"
  • ahmet burhan bas
    • https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/hisar/students/ahmet-bas/
    • does automata kit to teach people about automatic systems
      • https://507movements.com/
      • https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3701571.3703389
      • https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3701571.3703389
    • wants to do somethign with audio
    • https://archive.fabacademy.org/fabacademy2016/fablabreykjavik/students/331/final_project.html
    • final project:
      • this in hardware: https://www.incredibox.com/
    • the best music project ever: antonis cristion of htmaa: https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.24/people/AntonisChristou/about/
      • he likes very abstract music
      • it was a graphical game. while you were building the sahpes, you are synthesizing
  • shintaro ito: node japan kannai
    • data analysis
    • https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/kannai/students/shintaro-ito/
    • fabacademy because: read some book from neil
    • final project: cleaning wheels
    • project to make a dishwasher by jfduval
  • koharu takeda
    • nice vinyl cutting design
    • final project:
    • some table tennis table
  • Doaa Elbess
    • jewelry holder
  • Evelyn Cuadrado
  • akash
    • did flexible cardboard thing by engravign away the top layer of it.
  • ofelia
    • in week 3 sh built masks from vinyl cutter

Ferdi's Addendum

  • option to have class in bigger classroom?
    • yes why not
  • tomorrow at 9:
    • we all would be terribly bored with an arduino intro class
    • arduino intro
    • we should have a look at the few available microprocessors
    • make a plan on what we have to do for the group assignment
    • social modia appointment
  • available boards
    • xiao
  • we will use the rp2040 a lot
  • yes, we really should read all the manual
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