"One [home page] to rule them all, one [home page] to find them,
One [home page] to bring them all, and in the [Fab Academy 2020] bind them
In the Land of [Fab Lab] where the [Creations] lie."
Website (real) contents
About pages
Weekly assignments pages
My final project pages
A lot of icons, some made with Inkscape,
others downloaded from the Flaticon website and
used with the "Premium Flaticon License"
Why Fab Academy?
I am planning to become a Fab[ulous] Lab manager and I wanted to
Shift from theoretical (my PhD) to practical knowlegde
Discover more about the Fab Lab ecosystem
Connect with fab[ulous] people!
How?
Using this 3 books
DESIGNING REALITY How to survive and Thrive in the Third Digital Revolution
[1]
Small Unmanned Fixed-Wing Aircraft Design A Practical Approach
[2]
Conservation drone Mapping and monitoring Biodiversity
[3]
Using El-Zanfaly approach
3 steps approach to learn (almost) everything :
1) Imitation (make own copy)
2) Iteration (make little changes)
3) Improvisation (make!)
Using this guiding principles
Modular design
Parametric design
Use open source softwares
Use open source hardwares
Include Fab Lab users in the process of making and understanding the construction of a fixed wing drone
Promote ecology
Inspire Fab Lab users to explore the use of drones for conservation mission
Conduct extensive field tests to validate the designs for the fixed wing drone
1Gershenfeld, Neil and Gershenfeld, Alan and Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel, Designing reality: How to survive and thrive in the third digital revolution (Basic Books, 2017).
2Keane, Andrew J and Sóbester, András and Scanlan, James P, Small Unmanned Fixed-wing Aircraft Design: A Practical Approach (John Wiley & Sons, 2017).
3Wich, Serge A and Koh, Lian Pin, Conservation drones: mapping and monitoring biodiversity (Oxford University Press, 2018).