Links

An unordered collection of links that I found during the Fab Academy.

Part I

The Links in this part were transferred from browser bookmarks after the end of the program.

• unikat wiki https://unikat-ilmenau.de/wiki/shelves/fabacademy-2025
• drawb4c_k
  • https://unikat-ilmenau.de/wiki/books/week-12-mechanical-design-machine-design/page/dr4wbck
  • https://unikat-ilmenau.de/wiki/books/week-12-mechanical-design-machine-design/page/dr4wbck
• shortlinks
  • electronics design https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/ilmenau/students/jakob-lerch/assignments/week-06_electronics-design/#this-weeks-board
  • fa 2025 https://fabacademy.org/2025/
  • fa 2025 students https://fabacademy.org/2025/people.html
  • assessment book https://fabacademy.org/2025/nueval/
  • assessment book essentials https://fabacademy.org/2025/nueval/general_essentials.html
  • fa gitlab public projects https://gitlab.fabcloud.org/pub
  • fa personal gitlab https://gitlab.fabcloud.org/academany/fabacademy/2025/labs/ilmenau/students/jakob-lerch
  • fa issues https://gitlab.fabcloud.org/academany/fabacademy/2025/class/-/issues
  • fa creating new issue https://gitlab.fabcloud.org/academany/fabacademy/2025/class/-/issues/new?issue%5Btitle%5D=Assessment%20question&description_template=Assessment%20question
  • fab inventory https://inventory.fabcloud.io/
  • expert network map https://pub.fabcloud.io/project/expert-network-map/
  • howto video compression https://academy.cba.mit.edu/classes/computer_design/video.html
  • nueval https://nueval.academany.org
• other general recommended links, unused
  • emoji cheat sheet https://www.webfx.com/tools/emoji-cheat-sheet/
  • time buddy https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
  • vscode paste image extension https://github.com/mushanshitiancai/vscode-paste-image/blob/master/README.md
• interesting projects & parts
  • midi sequencer https://fabacademy.org/2020/labs/barcelona/students/bruno-molteni/final-project/
  • fluxama synth shield https://academy.cba.mit.edu/classes/applications_implications/electronics/index.html
  • other midi sequencer https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.23/EECS/people/Artem/8d8136091b8d45b6b448303d505cb3fa.html
  • aquabot https://news.mit.edu/2023/engineers-devise-modular-system-efficient-scalable-aquabots-0206
  • trippy rgb waves mitch altman dub https://www.seeedstudio.com/Trippy-RGB-Waves-kit-p-4826.html
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6KC9AfGtYA
  • 8bit mixtape https://github.com/8BitMixtape
  • replicating cotton candy machine to recycle plastic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfdbe5S-4Dc
    • website (flossfactory) https://www.thepolyflossfactory.com/technology
  • making a custom skateboard deck https://www.xsnick.com/workshops/skatebaords/
  • cnc foam sheet cutter https://fabacademy.org/2020/labs/incitefocus/students/daniel-meyer/assignments/Week20/
  • kokoro interactive kuscheltier https://fabacademy.org/2023/labs/kamakura/students/claire-chaikin/fp/
  • lego-powered submarine, pid control https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLEH8RJsYgI
  • yusuke takahashi: lightweight plane https://fabacademy.org/2022/labs/kitakagaya/students/yusuke-takahashi/
  • automata: bridging theory and practice in mechanics through hands-on experience https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3701571.3703389
  • lighting
    • modular iot lego bricks https://archive.fabacademy.org/fabacademy2017/fablabamsterdam/students/60/finalprojectpage.html
    • shift register & led https://fabacademy.org/2021/labs/bottrop/students/lars-mattern/projects/final-project/IV.%20Prototyping/3_k155id1_74hc595/
  • textile electronics sensor https://class.textile-academy.org/2023/ieva-dautartaite/project/
  • textile project: puppet https://fabacademy.org/archives/2015/eu/students/hisatsune.taichi/finalproject.html
• people
  • good-example fab academy docs
    • nadieh bremer https://fabacademy.org/2021/labs/waag/students/nadieh-bremer/
    • henk https://fabacademy.org/2018/labs/fablabamsterdam/students/henk-buursen/aboutme.html
    • gerhard mattissen https://fabacademy.org/2021/labs/kamplintfort/students/mattissen-gerhard/about/
    • sam calisch https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.12/people/calisch/index.html
    • kenny https://people.csail.mit.edu/kenny/website/index_inf.html
    • the machine that cried, ernesto castro https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/ulima/students/ernesto-castro/
    • camila luna lopez https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/cuenca/students/camila-luna/about.html
    • bruno https://fabacademy.org/2014/students/mauricio.bruno/index.html
  • bootcamp speakers
    • angenlina yang https://fabacademy.org/2024/labs/charlotte/students/angelina-yang/
    • adrian torres https://fabacademy.org/2020/labs/leon/students/adrian-torres/index.html
    • miriam choi https://fabacademy.org/2019/labs/seoul/students/miriam-choi/index.html
    • silvia lugo https://fabacademy.org/2019/labs/tecsup/students/silvia-lugo/index.html
    • dubick https://archive.fabacademy.org/2016/charlottelatin/students/999/about.html
    • jim hart https://fabacademy.org/2020/labs/lccc/students/jim-hart/about/
  • others
    • gabriella gardosi https://fabacademy.org/archives/2015/eu/students/gardosi.gabriella/
    • matt keeter https://www.mattkeeter.com/
    • tiago https://fabacademy.org/2014/students/figueiredo.tiago/index.html
    • mit media lab, ani’s fabrication forrays https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.15/section.CBA/people/Liu/
  • regional group
    • patrick dezseri https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/waag/students/patrick-dezseri/
• other
  • topopt, topological optimization https://www.topopt.mek.dtu.dk/
  • fa workadventure https://htmaaland.web.app/

Part II

The links in this part were added to this file during the program.

• https://www.bhoite.com/
  • creating pcbs that are 3d constructions
• https://learn.rijnieks.com/
• https://fabacademy.org/archives/2015/eu/students/postma.ronald/ fa of somebody who did everything with mushrooms

embedded programming

• neils code: https://academy.cba.mit.edu/classes/input_devices/temp/hello.temp.45.c

erwin slides (instructor von waag) - https://fabacademy.org/2021/labs/waag/students/kooi-erwin/teaching/slides/ - https://fabacademy.org/2021/labs/waag/students/kooi-erwin/teaching/soldering-exercise/

literature - https://makezine.com/article/uncategorized/the-band-began-to-play-the-history-and-future-of-fab-labs/

youtube - this old tony

cad models & finished machines - grabcad.com - https://builds.openbuilds.com/

krasse fabacademys - https://fabacademy.org/archives/nodes/barcelona/armengol_altayo.daniel/htm/18.html - daniel armengol - künstlerdude. jedes assignment kann man sich mal anschauen - hat auch mit motor drivers gearbeitet - his website: https://youtu.be/QRdb935v1sQ?si=t4PvuTsczCljwMPY

• unusual shop tips https://youtu.be/OuZjjActWmQ?si=XZr0yOAxKPiH28M

work

• https://fabfoundation.github.io/fabeconomy

• https://www.makertour.fr/

• vulca

• stl to svg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O9Kt09ymiI

finding the right multimeter

• person who builds his own multimeters https://eevblog.store/products/eevblog-bm235-multimeter (see yt)
• aneng is recommended cheap multimeter supplier
• fluke is expensive.
• eevblog forum is worldwide best electronics forum that exists

final projects

• air humidifier looking like fire https://fabacademy.org/2019/labs/kamakura/students/kae-nagano/projects/final-project/?utm_source=Fab+Academy&utm_campaign=875eb3c8b7-StudentApril9_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6be0c5adc0-875eb3c8b7-436367874

unsorted linkhs

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M51bMMVWbC8
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5U1nnoJs6o
• https://www.lumatone.io/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAIar0O-yvg
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Gu4NNnHgA
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baUh1ELLcF4

jobs

• https://fablabs.io/jobs

• noumedia. farming

• design https://vimeo.com/322962776

• craftsman show yt

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHBnw46GvGM

• field optimal control: https://ekswhyzee.com/2025/03/24/foc-stepper.html

• machine learning https://fleuret.org/public/lbdl.pdf

• machina absurda weird art insta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtze637iYSc

tools

• rhino wit hplugin grasshopper. rhino is nurbs representation. grasshopper turns it into a parametric design software.

projects

• open source knitting machine https://var-mar.info/circular-knitic/

capacitive touch sensor

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R94Ut3pOTd4

• multiplexer module https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dco6jo9xgAo&t=22s CD74HC4067 multip

• drum machine analog circuit https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbl1xwFR3eg

• imogen heap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QtklTXbKUQ

• https://archive.fabacademy.org/fabacademy2016/fablabmadridue/students/280/assignment16.html

• https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MAS.864/

• check out compressed sensing

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_sensing

networking via sound https://github.com/ggerganov/ggwave

• arduino submarine https://ardupilot.org/sub/index.html

• electrically-powered & cnc-milled car http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.14/people/andrew_mao/project/

• http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.14/people/andrew_mao/project/

• design movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1241325/

• braun design philosophy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNQv0ZX2eno

• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8423080/

• teenage engineering design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCliqmX_TQ4

• It is very difficult, but I am sure that Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety by Nancy G. Leveson will be helpful in considering the safety of complex system systems systems. If you are interested in this book from a testing perspective, read it. (I’m not a bookseller’s spinner 🙃 ) https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262533690/engineering-a-safer-world/

cable robots

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A2LUbJjDQ0
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCa8uDFzbsw
• create artificial muscle https://youtu.be/1A2LUbJjDQ0?si=6dPk-ItvXay3W9V8
• ipanema fraunhofer project

how to drive

• muscles that contract under heat
• kabel auf einer rille aufwickeln wenn man es antreiben möchte.

electronics: eevblogs

• cool electrornics/pcb projects https://github.com/pighixxx

• drawdio kit

• andreas spiess

https://vimeo.com/25401444 https://vimeo.com/254518604 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCliqmX_TQ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsIZHReoaBk https://youtu.be/PV_w38ldZaE?si=0G1GDtduu5cw4MXS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBBORq_yHrw https://youtu.be/hBBORq_yHrw?si=8ZDWbDM1TIofJlRh https://archive.org/details/abc-basic-connections

not depending on fablabs

• materiom

ted talk

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shvaBUFduNM
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EJCP5Rg4u0
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8xOMOsb2jA
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpVlJCniVDM

design

• https://vimeo.com/545454447?turnstile=0.WOw6V78MbxdRErzHIjLLyOXqyeo23e6Xn9oIvAauhs5Ik7tsv29zcexGjh0kEN64MgnDCObgkz6TAZQ0h-jfE-ZZcZkz_Citf6PuT8ll84QzsS1f1beJkVBu1AMwGj9132E4GVYOzn76471T_C8pxxNk6TzZ_NPZxRuKdp_TRbhPttM1dC7EmEkMFAyxOi5ly7T-QV41Y5ILDFpk2U7Xoh_ebJhuCKH4kccqZzgH3quObSzGHW5hYjZgn5x9zUPoBr5qnXZtmRnlhJzqsSJL7qzJeEh-yr-bfRbuRXbWsEQoYys-mxNdXNyf1f_1F7wG9SffGuOABSZTSzHX78QZys3OqPZqyLRPlqLMEmOl1tG-2KrYDUKk5e2AYDZNCH8V2-nZlbFtwqzksS2NQQyFmSK0yL-0vkJTXRnnbT83jVOsGSNmTNIwzwGJj5pucBj1QmbmD8xlA0ViLqbOcnan6xQTIbiKwzKZJsaIuYjY-a7FqpbTXXPf3j0puUsuNIIdSB7XdXTqbXqV04v1l9LsRWuQ5VAK13aaCI0rG52Di5h2AkZlzw3upk0ZgSB8Rjw4Ou2BspXmvIH3qNxMKRInd24jVhmdU_XUnlHG6ULv2MLgicGk_58DPSlXT3nYgZWP_YQnhs_4dRj4sXOsCj3ds44u7pmPgr2b9JAb0XJ_VtxL3DlkB4oZxkRT7gi7KE7PoCh-15C74oGqhYbdqq7bYIBB2GV-FzqBLQUpNk9NjZOwcYLwnQGkqNHVtj2X4bcKez-lBwPqWuFvd1GpH0GyXg.zbV2pSzTvDGGq0iL5Spkeg.eb787ab77135e19f1d87c0674228130ea79a9631099e6ed87638c76893a167cb

• https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264

  • the higher the CRF, the smaller the video size, but also more glitchy, but some people prefer that

• animatronics https://www.youtube.com/live/OApBOqrnMwg?si=jriRU-ef4TM-Tupv&t=42

• iron man gauntlet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjTWAy4-lLI

• inflatables https://youtu.be/UFrWfnwD3aU?si=-Yy86oF-MDjnw9eS

• thingiverse for sla printing: https://www.myminifactory.com/

• watch design recitation https://vimeo.com/545454447?turnstile=0.WOw6V78MbxdRErzHIjLLyOXqyeo23e6Xn9oIvAauhs5Ik7tsv29zcexGjh0kEN64MgnDCObgkz6TAZQ0h-jfE-ZZcZkz_Citf6PuT8ll84QzsS1f1beJkVBu1AMwGj9132E4GVYOzn76471T_C8pxxNk6TzZ_NPZxRuKdp_TRbhPttM1dC7EmEkMFAyxOi5ly7T-QV41Y5ILDFpk2U7Xoh_ebJhuCKH4kccqZzgH3quObSzGHW5hYjZgn5x9zUPoBr5qnXZtmRnlhJzqsSJL7qzJeEh-yr-bfRbuRXbWsEQoYys-mxNdXNyf1f_1F7wG9SffGuOABSZTSzHX78QZys3OqPZqyLRPlqLMEmOl1tG-2KrYDUKk5e2AYDZNCH8V2-nZlbFtwqzksS2NQQyFmSK0yL-0vkJTXRnnbT83jVOsGSNmTNIwzwGJj5pucBj1QmbmD8xlA0ViLqbOcnan6xQTIbiKwzKZJsaIuYjY-a7FqpbTXXPf3j0puUsuNIIdSB7XdXTqbXqV04v1l9LsRWuQ5VAK13aaCI0rG52Di5h2AkZlzw3upk0ZgSB8Rjw4Ou2BspXmvIH3qNxMKRInd24jVhmdU_XUnlHG6ULv2MLgicGk_58DPSlXT3nYgZWP_YQnhs_4dRj4sXOsCj3ds44u7pmPgr2b9JAb0XJ_VtxL3DlkB4oZxkRT7gi7KE7PoCh-15C74oGqhYbdqq7bYIBB2GV-FzqBLQUpNk9NjZOwcYLwnQGkqNHVtj2X4bcKez-lBwPqWuFvd1GpH0GyXg.zbV2pSzTvDGGq0iL5Spkeg.eb787ab77135e19f1d87c0674228130ea79a9631099e6ed87638c76893a167cb

• computational public space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PixPSNRDNMU

• uv printer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD8r1UBwLL0

• legogpt for text to lego https://futurezone.at/science/lego-klemmbaustein-legogpt-carnegie-mellon-ki-llm/403040322

• eufymaker: uv printer

• mpc with steppers: https://ekswhyzee.com/2025/03/24/foc-stepper.html

• using usb batteries with projects: https://fabacademy.org/archives/nodes/barcelona/tanner_pasetti.gabriel/final.html

• artistic 3d folding metal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUNkAqbkRrA

• tutorial how to do that in blender: https://feadi.de/en/tutorials/papermasks/

• https://tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura_designer/

• https://blenderartists.org/t/export-paper-model/476597

• ideas: https://academy.cba.mit.edu/classes/applications_implications/index.html

• community transformation: https://www.incite-focus.org/

• computational public space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=Qs4ub5HS4-JdUwv8&v=PixPSNRDNMU&feature=youtu.be

• time series classification

  • https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3649448
  • https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/344917/what-are-some-fast-alternatives-to-dynamic-time-warping#344973
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0349-2

• molding & casting as a service

  • https://www.protolabs.com/services/injection-molding/
  • pcbway
  • jlcpcb
  • aisler.net

• emg sensors for muscle contractions

• ancy, kerala, opening,closing lamp

• protection aganst wrong connections

  • resistors to signal wires
  • power transistor in power connections

• snap connections. magnetic things… for later later

• junky story aber mit fab. fabster der abhängig war von fabrication. immer wenn er nahe eines fablabs kommt wird er rückfällig “nur kurz ein pcb fräsen”. alle möglichen analogien zu glücksspiel, mafia_etc._machen.

• cnc

  • cnc schleifen
  • lackieren

Other interesting projects

• Fabrics

  • fabricadamy, led scarf, vigan ashram
  • https://class.textile-academy.org/2023/ieva-dautartaite/project/

• Light

  • https://fabacademy.org/2020/labs/barcelona/students/david-prieto/projects/final-project/
  • https://fabacademy.org/2020/labs/barcelona/students/bruno-molteni/final-project/
  • fabricadamy, led scarf, vigan ashram
  • https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/ulima/students/ofelia-sevilla/Idea_process.html

• Audio

  • https://github.com/maltman23/ArduTouch/tree/master/Arduino/libraries/ArduTouch

• Interactive Installations

  • https://fabacademy.org/2020/labs/barcelona/students/david-prieto/projects/final-project/
  • introverted lamp
    • https://fabacademy.org/2019/labs/waag/students/rutger-oomkes/projects/final-project/
    • https://fabacademy.org/2019/labs/waag/students/rutger-oomkes/presentation.mp4

• Inflatables

  • final project where somebody had a heart in their hand which pumped in the same frequency as someones heart.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWvPFgEmHGU&t=615s
  • https://www.fablabs.io/users/adrianacabrera
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_robotics
  • wire which changes shape when you charge it
    • nitinol
    • https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.10/people/jie.qi/jieweek10.html
    • https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HJUI5JYeLCM
    • for very small length changes some wires can also be used with termal expansion in mind. apply a current and it warms up,_etc._but that’s generally a slow process
    • https://fabacademy.org/2020/labs/leon/students/adrian-torres/week03.html
    • https://fabacademy.org/2020/labs/leon/students/adrian-torres/week16.html
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWvPFgEmHGU&t=615s
  • origami + air pump
    • you would need to make it air-tight enough. might be easier to use fabric ()
  • closed silicon bubble with pump or magnet (perm magnet in silicon hull, electro magnet inside)
  • pump that pumps air to inside, outside with semipermeable membrane that wölbt outside and inside
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3GKe7eXbPE
  • nitinol
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BA8-MdO8so
    • just put current through it

• Other

  • thermochromic ink: depending on the voltage you can change the color
  • wood: burn in lightning patterns when applying voltage

• persi diaconis: mathematics of shuffling cards

• https://www.nasa.gov/emerging-technologies-for-astrophysics-missions-workshop/

• https://makezine.com/article/uncategorized/the-band-began-to-play-the-history-and-future-of-fab-labs/

• Structure – property – function: relationships of natural and engineered wood

  • authors: chaoji chen et al.

• design book https://www.amazon.de/Design-Everyday-Things-Revised-Expanded/dp/0465050654/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=1192970771217107&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.9E05DwEsDBnpINY_K193GeFG_S-gqhlCGXgIZ1--ldfytKpnWDbfW4aDfi-u2nneWVuNsNjXLWUNTzsRisJRJoCEXPTjK-ON6iTUJshTuw4m0we8wza9K39TArZ8jVJk6alQoWHDIpaqfgh7M_G0td_cz_tg4XG_fHba_lEGbPBSpDfo54CvUEXn4MULjeUK13GysDh3HR1JhnvzheQ9enW_qyY8TSnVCMCERhIEcq0.Tc4_oKoDz-ulczJkmo-lrJrPQZsjrKDsVpizKQ3L7is&dib_tag=se&hvadid=72361946558503&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=127632&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvtargid=kwd-74560877057759%3Aloc-72&hydadcr=27520_2369293&keywords=the+design+of+everyday+things&mcid=cf326924aec836678ad9253b61d2a5e6&qid=1746630025&sr=8-1

• cool machines

  • wire bender (you do not create waste when producing with those machines)
  • painting an egg.