---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: The Fab Foundation <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 2:34 AM Subject: Fab Academy 2017 To: [email protected] Everything you need to know about a unique digital fabrication training program <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001-gcNVTGpdX2hrRc100kvCbL7g1lhMsP77vZdRgge56zmWbY02jWpSRkY_YTMthDNTvsdGGVJ-UrIFt4hdS-nOQ-iE0jKPaNRBYsIuDGt2S8P7tmqdJ0WQlM64w57VP8OW_TtGB3yyyTkBHsZ36eBXgs4oOIuQfGbSAAJ34HPSs2zvvdEzm9rWA==&c=ADZqjzLQsP0s2E0UBpAkYXjiAD72dWmwzb-7I_mCGuwDrk2ydHzejg==&ch=aCTquYBwkwnWfJFVjhCWJsY4Jk2ejwTYFLJZ9s_8i573XTS8lK5ysA==> What is Fab Academy? Just as communications and computation went from analog to digital, resulting in PCs and the Internet, the digitization of fabrication is leading to personal fabricators that will allow anyone to make almost anything, anywhere. The development of digital fabrication is based on creating codes that don't just describe things, they are things, much as proteins are coded in molecular biology. This research roadmap is ultimately aiming at a Star Trek-style replicator, but prototype versions of these capabilities are already available in field fab labs. At the Fab Academy, you will learn how to envision, prototype and document your ideas through many hours of hands-on experience with digital fabrication tools. We take a variety of code formats and turn them into physical objects. The Fab Academy Diploma consists of a 5 month part-time student commitment, from January to June. The Fab Diploma is the result of the sum of Fab Academy Certificates. Progress towards the diploma is evaluated by a student's acquired skills rather than time or credits. The Fab Academy is a fast paced, hands-on learning experience where students plan and execute a new project each week. Neil Gershenfeld, Director of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms lectures each week via video conferencing while the assignments are carried out at local participating Fab Labs. Each individual is responsible for documenting their progress for each project, resulting in a personal portfolio of technical accomplishments. A Fab Academy Student Experience My name is Eyal Amram and I did "fab academy 2015" course in Israel under Ohad's guidance. I'm working at Cisco (we were NDS till 2013) more than 10 years as QC technician. I want to share with you my story how the fab academy course impacted my work at Cisco. As a part of my life I was always interested at project management, electronics, 3D modeling, CNC and more. Once I heard from a friend about this course I went to Fablab at Holon and met Ohad. This meeting was very remarkable for me and I felt like this is going to be a start of a journey. Ohad very impressed me at that meeting and certainty positively influenced on my decision sign up to this course. At the course I finally "connected the dots" and while Ohad inspired me I realized that "I can make (almost) anything.." and the story below will show it. At xNDS we are doing white box testing for a component at the S.T.B that do verification for "ca authorization" (verifier) and we must run it with real smart card and not a simulation. For communicating with a smart card, we use readers that was developed at NDS over 20 years ago, and use a serial rs232 to connect PC. We had more than 6000 tests and we run them on 8 PC's that connected to those readers and card switchers. The time take running them at all the projects was 5 days. When I was at the course I started to think how can I take the skills I learned to overcome this bottle neck. So I decided to question our earlier assumptions on how to work: - Why use xNDS smart card readers, which were created for smart card production and contain expensive electronics to test voltage when something off-the-shelf and much cheaper would be good enough? o And I started to read about readers, how they work, Chips, Protocols and more.. - Why limit each computer to work only with the smart card and reader that it is physically attached to over its serial port? o And I started to read about devices that convert serial to IP - Why limit scalability by using physical machines for each instance of the Verifier and its associated testing environment? o And I started to learn about ESXi and VMs environment.. The freedom to disrupt my earlier thinking led me to implement the following solutions: - We bought $20 readers and integrated them into the Verifier test environment - We developed software to manage a pool of reader/smart card combinations that communicate over IP so that we can build a large pool of smart cards that can scale as needed and be dynamically assigned to a project. - We used "Cisco on Cisco" and set up a UCS rack to host tens of virtual machines that ran the Verifier and its test environment And now ? we run over 12000 test in 5 HOURS !!! why ? because I learnt that there is no limit and you can make almost anything .. J At this project I learnt how to build UCS racks, how to configure it. I learnt Linux, Switching, Storage and much more.. You can see the recommendations I got here : https://il.linkedin.com/in/ eyal-amram-aa584a17 I shared with a lot of people my story and how the fablab is an amazing place to start dreaming and do what you want. I took my programa to the fablab for tour and Ohad led it.. they came with a big smile to the work at the day after and more groups went to see the fablab too. What changed in my life since then? A lot - I gave two lectures in front of more than 400 employees, explaining what we did and how it's start from doingfabacademy course. - I record a VOD with my managers about it too (it was sent to more than 5000 employees all over the world) - I did Collaboration with Intel IoT and Cisco IoT and they running 3 project together (Smart cities, Spaces and robotics) - I started my first BA at Management and Computer Science - and Cisco is paying for that and for the time I'm learning J - And I do a lot more.. And all started... with Ohad and the fablab !! Many thanks, Eyal If you are at all interested in learning how to make (almost) anything, taking your own digital fabrication work to a new level, interacting with creative fabricators, including Neil Gershenfeld at MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, and generally working really hard while having a lot of fun, then check out the Fab Academy website for more details. We look forward to seeing lots of new faces in the 2017 class! 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