Fritzing was started in August 2007 by the Interaction Design Lab at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam , Germany. From 2009, the team has been hosted by IXDS and the non-profit foundation Friends-of-Fritzing e.V. was established in 2012.
The Core Team
Prof. Reto Wettach (supervision)
André Knörig (project lead)
Jonathan Cohen (chief software architect)
Stefan Hermann (evangelism, products & services)
Sevgi Ulas (shop & production manager)
Fabian Althaus (parts & fab master)
Nushin Yazdani (community & pr)
Alumni
Amin Zayani (chief operations officer)
Daniel Clerc (web development)
Christian Ivanis (branding/CI)
Till Savelkoul (web development)
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
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.
Donations
Thanks to an anonymous supporter, who is helping to make hardware become software.
Thanks to
corporate donors PICAXE, Parallax,
SparkFun, Arduino and
Adafruit.
If you would also like to support us, please get in touch!
A photo of some of
our team members in the previous office. We were very cozy.
