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
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, 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.
