# 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](https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/westharima/students/koharu-takeda/)
    - nice vinyl cutting design
    - final project:
    - some table tennis table    
- [Doaa Elbess](https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/egypt/students/doaa-elbess/)
    - jewelry holder
- [Evelyn Cuadrado](https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/lima/students/evelyn-cuadrado/)
- [akash](https://akash-edamana-2f0181.fabcloud.io/Template/Week_3.html)
    - did flexible cardboard thing by engravign away the top layer of it.
- [ofelia](https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/ulima/students/ofelia-sevilla/Week%20_3.html)
    - 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