Final Project

WHAT

It's been two years since I started attempting to learn all the Fab Academy concepts and complete projects. In that time, I have never had a final project idea that I was excited about. I have been taking a lot of my own "Fab Zero" type of notes, though. And just recently, my friend and work associate David and I created and sold out a five class program of hands-on, delivered-to-your door, electronics learning kits for middle school aged learners.

So, I plan to build the ideas out for the kits even further. Instead of focusing on electronics, I plan to put together "Fab Fundamentals Kits and Curriculum" that we can use and share with other labs/learners.

 

WHY

We are beginning to have our own PCBs designed and manufactured as the cost of most retail solder kits is very expensive, especially when you consider how many we go through in the context of teaching young people to learn to solder. (In fact, we had one young boy in a class over this past Winter Break use five boards before he got it right.) I never want to not be able to say "yes" to that over concern about costs.