Fritzing was started in August 2007 by the Interaction Design Lab at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany.
The Core Team
Prof. Reto Wettach (supervision)
André Knörig (project lead)
Jonathan Cohen (chief software architect)
Brendan Howell (electrical engineering)
Mariano Crowe (software architect)
Active alumni:
Zach Eveland (electrical engineering)
Dirk van Oosterbosch (ui design)
Jenny Chowdhury (content, documentation, outreach)
Travis Robertson (documentation)
Myriel Milicevic (eco research & illustration)
Kevin Haywood (ui design)
Jannis Leidel (website)
Johannes Landstorfer (ui design)
Contributing FHP Students
Marcus Paeschke (e-lab)
Stefan Hermann (e-lab & jep shields)
Omer Yosha (documentation)
Hans Kadel (eco research & workshops)
Lionel Michel (part design)
Community Contributors
Peter Boman (Parts)
Bryant Mairs (Coding)
Don Roberts (Parts, Tutorials)
Translators: Kurt Badelt (Spanish), Gianluca Urgese (Italian), Brian Lee (Chinese Trad.), Steven Noppe (Dutch), Vladimir (Russian), Hiroshi (Japanese), Ninjia & Yuelin (Chinese Simp.), Nuno (Portuguese)
...and many more
Funding/Sponsors
Fritzing is a research project that was made possible through long-term funding (2007-2009) from MWFK Brandenburg (Ministry of Science, Research and Culture in the state of Brandenburg), based on a grant application by Prof. Reto Wettach.
Further support was provided through the Faculty of Media at Bauhaus-University Weimar, and through IxDS Interaction Design Studios.
Donations
We are now happily accepting donations from users and supporters, please see our donations page.
Thanks to an anonymous supporter, who is "helping to make hardware become software".
Thanks to corporate donors PICAXE and Parallax.
If you would like to support us, too, please get in touch with us! |
