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)
Stefan Hermann (evangelism, products & services)
Amin Zayani (chief operations officer)
Daniel Clerc (web development)
Fabian Althaus (parts master)
Alumni:
Brendan Howell (electrical engineering)
Mariano Crowe (software architect)
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
Fabian Althaus (part design)
Daniel Tzschentke (parts, eeng)
Omer Yosha (documentation)
Hans Kadel (eco research & workshops)
Lionel Michel (part design)
Marcus Paeschke (e-lab)
Community Contributors
Peter Boman (Parts)
Bryant Mairs (Coding)
Don Roberts (Parts, Tutorials)
Translators: Kurt Badelt and Miguel Solis (Spanish), Gianluca Urgese (Italian), Brian Lee (Chinese Traditional), Steven Noppe (Dutch), Vladimir Savinov (Russian), Hiroshi Suzuki (Japanese), Ninjia & Yuelin (Chinese Simplified), Nuno Pessanha Santos (European Portuguese), Arthur Zanona (Brazilian Portuguese)
...and many other contributors
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, Parallax, SparkFun and Adafruit.
If you would also like to support us, please get in touch! |
