This week we will design and build a machine with a group. I am in the team with Philip, Paula and Erwin and we have a good idea with a machine that will make Fabacademy-live a little more pleasant

This week is all about learning how to program an embedded microprocessor. I Don't know anything about it so it is again a week full of tutorials and workshops. This week I will first do some online research and after Henks Class (on friday this time) it is time to work on the assignments

This week is a fun week, 'make something big'. Henk got us all plywood boards and we are supposed to make a design that will be human-sized and fit on one board. The design has to be prepared and milled on the Shop-bot-machine

Week 6 is about designing circuitboards and learning the workflow in KiCAD or Fusion360-Eagle for that. In order to do so, some basic understanding of electronics is part of this week. If everything goes well I have a working Hello world board at the end of the week

This week is all about 3D-printing and scanning, 3D-printing is a method that is not taking material away but is adding material in slices, which is a great method to make objects that would be impossible to make form one piece using more traditional methods. But, of course there are also quite some restrictions.

This week the workflow for milling and soldering a circuitboard is explored. we learn how to use the small cnc-milling machine and with that mill a circuitboard. And we'll collect all the parts and solder them to the board. after that it is time to test and debug

making a pressfit construction-Kit after learning the basics about working with the lasrcutter. pressfit has everything to do with knowing about the Kerf and power/speed-combinations of the lasercutter. The way your design will fit is dependent on the accuracy of knowing how the machine works. Next to this we'll make …

Try out differnt 2D and 3D CAD-tools and find which ones work well for you. I decided to learn more about illustrator and work with different 3D-tools to learn the different workflows and basic possibilities

The starting point of the final project. I will work on a worm-mood-measurement-instrument. So that my worms who live in my wormbin at home can let me know in a friendly way that they are not in the best of shape and need some care.

The first week is all about setting up a site for the documentation of the FabAcademy. Starting with learning about a static site and finding out about the system of Gitlab.