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