How to Make (Almost) Anything
MIT's legendary hands-on fabrication course, taught through the Media Lab, covers the full toolkit for building smart systems: CAD/CAM/CAE design, NC machining, 3D printing, injection molding, laser cutting, PCB layout and fabrication, sensors and actuators, analog instrumentation, embedded digital processing, and wired and wireless communications. The emphasis is practical throughout, learning to operate the machines and instruments while also understanding how they work underneath. Materials on MIT OpenCourseWare include the syllabus, weekly assignments, and project documentation from the original class, which became the model for the global network of Fab Labs. There is no instructor feedback or certificate since this is a self-paced OCW archive, but the assignment structure and toolset breakdown give a real path through the material for anyone willing to source the equipment or find a local makerspace.