Carl P-Conquilla
"for kids who want to prototype good and want to learn to do other stuff good too."
"The tallest tower in the world - Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE."
Welcome to my Fab Academy journey!
I'm studying at FabLabUAE in Dubai but I've travelled all the way from FabLabWA in Perth, Western Australia.
Wendy Neale is my Instructor, from Fab Lab Wgtn in Wellington, New Zealand. The class here is - Abdulla, Bear, Carl, Darshan, Eidha, Salama, and Zahrah.
I'm 25 years old, enjoy long romantic walks on the beach and taking things apart to see how they work. 😂
Before the Fab life, I was a Lecturer in Applied Engineering. I studied a Bachelor of Mechatronics Engineering at University of Western Australia. I have been building things for as long as I've known myself (perhaps that's not very long..) and inspired by 1996-2004 era Lego.
I've done a bunch of other random stuff too however - fought fires, recorded albums, founded startups, taught robotics classes to children and driven electric racecars. I love that I am surrounded with people with a passion for technology that still come from vastly diverse backgrounds!
Hopefully I will meet you at some point or other throughout the course this year!
Where I'm from:
So I have two homes at the moment -
FabLab UAE is the lab I am studying in, located just west of the Financial Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (close to the mall!!).
FabLab WA the first lab in Australia and is located in the Australian Marine Complex in Perth, Western Australia.
Proposal for Final Project:
My final project proposal is a Mini Power Plant.
The rationale is that I would like to exercise skills I haven't yet mastered. I have high levels in CAD, 3D printing, general machining and electronics assembly; skills I'd like to explore are CNC milling, circuit board design and fabrication, data acquisition and functional programming.
More to follow...
Assignments by week:
Jan 17. Principles and PracticesJan 24. Project Management
Jan 31. Computer-aided Design
Feb 07. Computer-Controlled Cutting
Feb 14. Electronics Production
Feb 21. 3D Scanning and Printing
Feb 28. Electronics Design
Mar 07. Computer-Controlled Machining
Mar 14. Embedded Programming
Mar 21. Moulding and Casting
Apr 04. Input Devices
Apr 11. Output Devices
Apr 18. Interface and Application Programming
Apr 25. Networking and Communications
May 02. Mechanical Design
May 09. Machine Design
May 16. Wildcard Week
May 23. Applications and Implications
May 30. Invention, Intellectual Property and Income
Jun 11. Project Development
Jun 13. Project Presentations