Assignments

Congratulations, you have reached the point of working on your Final Project. This is your opportunity to demonstrate synthesis of skills you developed in the previous weeks.

Assignment:
- Document a final project masterpiece that integrates the range of units covered, answering the following questions:

  • What does it do?
  • Who’s done what beforehand?
  • What did you design?
  • What sources did you use?
  • What materials and components were used?
  • Where did they come from?
  • How much did they cost?
  • What parts and systems were made?
  • What processes were used?
  • What questions were answered?
  • What worked? What didn’t?
  • How was it evaluated?
  • What are the implications?

- Prepare a summary slide and a one-minute video showing its conception, construction, and operation.

- Your project should incorporate 2D and 3D design, additive and subtractive fabrication processes, electronics design and production, embedded microcontroller interfacing and programming, system integration and packaging.

- Where possible, you should make rather than buy the parts of your project. Projects can be separate or joint, but need to show individual mastery of the skills, and be independently operable.

- Present your final project.

📣 Invention, Dissemination & Development Plan

For my final project, I’ve decided to keep it fully open source and accessible to everyone. My primary goal is to promote safety and controlled access to dangerous machinery, and I believe this idea should be replicable by others, especially in Fab Labs or shared workshops. The priority is the well-being of users.

I do not intend to sell or license this solution commercially. However, I do plan to keep working on new versions, optimizing the hardware, refining the interface, and adding features such as cloud storage and Telegram API integration. I envision a future where multiple modules work together to manage access to several machines in a lab environment.

For dissemination, I plan to publish the project on my personal channels, in my local Fab Lab’s network, and potentially through a university-supported initiative. This will help reach people who can benefit or contribute to its improvement.

As for future development, I aim to:

  • 🔄 Add cloud synchronization to allow remote user management
  • 💬 Integrate Telegram notifications for machine usage tracking
  • 🛠️ Adapt the system to other machines with minor wiring and timing adjustments
To achieve this, I’ll need more time, institutional support, and resources to build at least two more modules and validate multi-node behavior.

🔐 Intellectual Property

As part of the Fab Academy framework, I have decided to keep my project fully open and accessible. Its main purpose is to promote safety and controlled access to dangerous machines, so I believe it should be easily replicable by others to benefit more Fab Labs and communities.

For that reason, my work is protected under the MIT License, which allows anyone to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, or even sell the software with virtually no restrictions — as long as the original license is included.

Additionally, the documentation and content on my site are covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This means others can:

  • ✅ Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • ✅ Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
  • ❌ Not use it for commercial purposes
  • 🔁 Distribute derivatives under the same license

MIT License CC BY CC NC CC SA

FabSafe © 2025 by Jhonatan Cortes is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

🖼️ Summary Slide & Final Video

Below is the visual summary of my final project, prepared for evaluation:

Presentation Slide

Slide – presentation.png

Video – presentation.mp4