Introduction

This week focused on electronics production: preparing manufacturing files, generating toolpaths, milling the PCB, soldering the components, debugging the board, and programming it.

For this assignment, I produced the same microcontroller development board that I designed in Week 06 and tested that it works by successfully uploading a program to it.

Introduction

This week focused on designing, machining, and assembling a large object using a CNC router.

For my individual project, I designed and fabricated a compact plywood table with a central woven opening. This middle section is not only a visual element, but also gives the table a secondary function as a book or magazine holder.

The workflow for this week covered the complete process from design to CAM preparation, machine setup, machining, assembly, and final use.

Introduction

For this week, I designed a simple PCB as a way to test the full electronics design workflow in KiCad, from schematic to a fabrication ready board.

Introduction

This week was focused on 3D printing and 3D scanning as two ways of working with 3D geometry. For the first part, I designed and printed a model that cannot be made subtractively, and for the second part I used a Shining 3D scanner to scan a person, meshed the raw data, and print the result on a BambuLab A1.

This week’s assignment was focused on embedded programming using a microcontroller.
The main goals was to learn how to:

• browse and understand a microcontroller datasheet
• write and test a program for an embedded system
• interact with local inputs/outputs
• communicate with remote wired/wireless connections
• upload working code and show a functional result

For my individual assignment, I used an Xiao ESP32 C3 development board, soldered male pin headers, and tested it on a breadboard by blinking an LED, then upgrading the circuit with a button input + Serial communication.

This week’s assignment focused on computer-controlled cutting, specifically:

• Designing, laser cutting, and documenting a parametric construction kit, while accounting for laser cutter kerf
• Cutting a design using a vinyl cutter

This week’s assignment was to model (raster, vector, 2D, 3D, render, animate, simulate, …) a possible final project, compress your images and videos, and post a description with your design files on our documentation.

This week was about setting up the documentation foundation for the rest of Fab Academy:
version control + documentation + publishing a website.

My goal was to end the week with:

• a site that publishes on Fab Academy GitLab Pages
• a clean Git workflow
• a repo that I can update every week without breaking everything
• about, weekly and final project pages

Fab Academy Student Agreement

The Fab Academy is responsible for:

• Teaching principles and practices of digital fabrication
• Arranging lectures, recitations, meetings, and events for the class
• Evaluating and providing feedback on student work
• Offering clear standards for completing assignments
• Certifying and archiving student progress
• Supervising class preparation
• Reviewing prospective students, instructors, and labs
• Providing central staff and infrastructure for students, instructors, and labs
• Fund-raising for costs not covered by student tuition
• Managing and reporting on the program’s finances, results, and impacts
• Publicizing the program
• Promoting a respectful environment free of harassment and discrimination
• Encourage a diverse, accessible, and equitable community

I am a Fab Academy student, responsible for: