Glossary of Terms

I have included this section to help me refference, explain, and remember the names, acronyms and uses of the tools that I encounter. This helps to document various bits of stuff that I am use as I proceed through the course. This is not a database, nor is it a catagoricalal selection, just a personal fab academy dictionary of new and valuable terms.

Tool Sets
Component Inventory
Machine Inventory

IDE

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Xcode

Openframeworks

C Language

C++ Language

Farad

Traces

Ohms

PCB = Printed Circuit Board

ISP = In System Programmer

Milling

Eagle

Fab Modules

Fab Library

Cocopeli

Gcode = Geometry Code

Spiral Model Management

Thermistor

LED

Ground (-)

VCC (+)

Bootloader

A bootloader is a piece of software. Bootloader can change info that is comming through USB (eg.) to convert it into something that a microcontroller can understand. it makes the microntroller ready to accept a new program by changing memory registers.. its a reset of the micontroller.