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Review (tools, softwares, open questions, etc)

Week01

  • Task juggler
  • https://gitlab.fabcloud.org/pub/project/mods

Week02

  • Blender
  • Fusion360
  • Load analysis
  • CADAM

Week03

  • Acrylic laser cutting
  • Cloth emboss
  • https://github.com/execuc/LCInterlocking

Week04

Week05

  • Gaussian 3d scanning
  • Resin printing. Make more complicated one
  • AI recitation lecture 2025
  • Try sensecraft AI

Week06

  • Art of electronics by horowitz and hill buy
  • Signal generator
  • SVG PCB
  • Create more interesting edge cut PCB design
  • https://www.hackster.io/news/morgan-allen-s-kiconnect-lets-freecad-work-with-kicad-projects-bfb2f049da0f
  • experiment with capacitors, mosfets, transistors from the book
  • clamp multimeter

Week07

  • Computer-controlled machining lecture 2025
  • Machining dynamics Tony L. Schmitz
  • Mechanical vibrations Tony L. Schmitz
  • https://fabacademy.org/2026/classes/computer_machining/TomToolTalk.mp4
  • https://github.com/fellesverkstedet/fabricatable-machines/tree/master/humphrey-large-format-cnc
  • https://books.industrialpress.com/machinery-handbook/
  • maslow cnc machine
  • Watch the wood work video

Week08

  • Double-sided PCB http://sibusaman.fabcloud.io/doublepcb/
  • buy soldering station. Check link
  • https://www.amazon.com/LUNYEE-All-Metal-MAX-Switches-Emergency-Stop/dp/B0C6WQWX3R/
  • https://github.com/Bouni/kicad-jlcpcb-tools
  • Experience with SMT https://fabacademy.org/2025/labs/chaihuo/students/lei-feng/en/assignments/week08/week08_group_assignment_pcb_rules_en
  • Experiment the different settings of mods

Week09

  • step response
  • imu sensors, especially understand the code
  • Fabricatable Machines (Jens Dyvik), https://github.com/fellesverkstedet/fabricatable-machines/wiki/Machine-family, https://github.com/Fabricatable-Machines/Timeline/. There is a making money section
  • Jani Ylioja, https://gitlab.com/fab-lab-oulu/sampo
  • https://machines.fabcloud.io/
  • https://github.com/hackclub/blot
  • https://projects.fablabkerala.in/mtm_projects/urumi/
  • https://projects.fablabkerala.in/mtm_projects/mini_plotter/
  • https://projects.fablabkerala.in/mtm_projects/polyplot/
  • https://projects.fablabkerala.in/creator_projects/olam/
  • Machine Agency (Nadya Peek), http://cba.mit.edu/docs/theses/16.08.Peek.pdf, https://depts.washington.edu/machines/
  • Jubilee project by nadya peek
  • Pull-up resistors Pull-up resistors are not a special kind of resistors; They are fixed-value resistors which are used to ensure that a wire is pulled to a high logical level in the absence of an input signal. They are connected between the voltage supply (usually +5V) and the appropriate pin, which results in defining the input or output voltage when there is no driving signal. Pull up resistors pull up a pin to a HIGH state. Pull-down resistors Pull-down resistors also work like pull-up resistors, except that they pull the pin to a logical low value. They are connected between ground and the appropriate pin on a device. Pull down resistors pull down a pin to a LOW state.

Communication / Interface Modules: - Grove - Lora Radio 868MHz - Grove - I2C Hub - Grove - Screw Terminal - Grove - Recorder

Week10

  • usb multimeter
  • https://www.powerstream.com/Wire_Size.htm
  • fast charging
  • charlie plexing LED
  • flapping origami https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.10/people/jie.qi/jieweek10.html
  • Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 Sense

Week11

  • asynchronous unclocked
  • https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-hacking-washing-machines
  • https://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2024/12/11/matter-vs-zigbee-vs-thread/
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpjR9hKjhEk
  • 4G EA01-SG is a cellular communication module. need simcard. Narrowband internet of things, no need to use a lot of data. Hologram is provider of this
  • https://openthread.io/guides/border-router
  • nRF toolbox for BLE
  • https://www.home-assistant.io/
  • https://meshtastic.org/
  • Check out NRF24L01 wireless RF transreceiver module, nRF52 Bluetooth
  • https://www.wireshark.org/
  • Julian (sysadmin) created an issue: #6

For anyone interested, we run a public MQTT broker for the Fab Academy students, especially useful for the networking week as I have been told.

Based on https://mosquitto.org/ server: mqtt.fabcloud.org port: 1883 username: fabacademy password: fabacademy channel/topic: fabacademy/ you can add your own sub-topic within fabacademy to keep messages organised just for your application/devices. (ie. your lab name and/or username, like fabacademy/paris-john) Websocket support: wss://mqtt.fabcloud.org:8083

Week12

-AFM machine - suppliers : - McMaster-carr - Stock drive products - amazon industrial - Misumi - https://www.instructables.com/A-Quick-Guide-on-Logic-Level-Shifting/ - https://hackaday.com/2019/02/28/threading-3d-printed-parts-how-to-use-heat-set-inserts/ - 507movements.com - https://compliantmechanisms.byu.edu/maker-resources - Check H-Bot catersian motion system used in CNC - MTM Snap : milling machine to make pcb board. Used flexures. https://mtm.cba.mit.edu/2013/2013_reconfigurable-stages/ - Popfab : multiple machines into a briefcase - Cardboard machine kit (James coleman) - Jubilee - https://www.npmjs.com/package/svg-to-gcode - Machine interfaces : - https://cnc.js.org/ - https://github.com/synthetos/TinyG/wiki/Chilipeppr - https://winder.github.io/ugs_website/ - https://linuxcnc.org/ - https://github.com/grbl/grbl - https://github.com/grblHAL - https://marlinfw.org/ - https://www.klipper3d.org/ - https://smoothieware.org/ - https://github.com/bdring/FluidNC - https://projects.fablabkerala.in/mtm_projects/mini_plotter/. Kerala has other machines - https://www.gofabmo.org/ - https://circuitdigest.com/microcontroller-projects/wireless-stepper-motor-driver-with-esp32-and-tmc2240 - https://github.com/bdring/Grbl_ESP32_Development_Controller - https://github.com/Expatria-Technologies/PicoBOB - https://gitlab.cba.mit.edu/neilg/urumbu - https://github.com/satshakit/ - https://gitlab.cba.mit.edu/jakeread/fab-step - https://fabacademy.org/2020/labs/ulb/students/quentin-bolsee/projects/fabstep-i2c/ - https://github.com/saheenpalayi/NeoPI_Wireless - https://github.com/modular-things/modular-things

Week13

-Young modulus kamakura machine - PicoNC is a hackable motor controller board with 4 stepper, 2 level shifted servo outputs and three limit switch inputs. It is good for learning as you can use Arduino or MicroPython libraries to stitch together your firmware and get a better understanding how NC works. https://gitlab.com/kriwkrow/pico-nc

Week14

  • Check Adrian's documentation
  • Check Materiom AI assistant for bio-based materials research
  • Somewhere has a good documentation of wax
  • Scopes-df fab foundation
  • make mooc. makeafricaeu.org/resources/
  • check out maker passport
  • map.internetofproduction.org
  • Machineable wax link
  • Kieran mills documentation
  • https://fabacademy.org/archives/2015/as/students/wang.tse-kang/week09.html

Week15

  • Chevron Fab stem fellowship
  • Check processing.org
  • Check godot and the other game engines
  • Blender can do simulation + physics + rendering, check it
  • Check more links in the future
  • https://fleuret.org/francois/lbdl.html
  • https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MAS.864/
  • qt designer

Week16

Week17

  • Review notes on AI
  • Jonas ULB knitting
  • Inkstich
  • Check wildcard week for composites, test composites

Week18

  • Check implications & applications
  • Osiclloscope test equipment
  • Laptop link
  • Agriculture link
  • Scientific instruments
  • Prosthetics
  • Clothes

Week19

Week20

Others

  • Knitting machine

  • https://www.tindie.com/ -remove components from old machines

  • vinyl cutter circuits