Collaborate Disseminate
While we use a lot of CAD tools, many of us are fans of Tinkercad — especially for working with kids or just doing something quick. But many people dislike …read more Continue reading What if Tinkercad was Self-Hosted?
When we first saw [DiPDoT’s] homebrew computer, we thought it was an Altair 8800. But, no. While it has a very familiar front panel, the working parts are all based …read more Continue reading Relay Computer Knows the Sequence
We’ve often thought that 3D printers make excellent school projects. No matter what a student’s interests are: art, software, electronics, robotics, chemistry, or physics, there’s something for everyone. A recent …read more Continue reading Teaching Math with 3D Printers
We would have enjoyed [Harishankar’s] tear down of a robot vacuum cleaner, even if it didn’t have a savage twist at the end. Turns out, the company deliberately bricked his …read more Continue reading Robot Phone Home…Or Else
Unless you are over a certain age, you probably take it for granted that electronic gadgets you buy have some FCC marking on them. But it wasn’t always true. [Ernie] …read more Continue reading Why Does the FCC Care About Computers?
Tinkercad is famous for having lots of colors in the interface. But once you export an STL, that file is notoriously monochrome. If you are printing with a single color …read more Continue reading Tinkercad in Color
It is easy to write off Tinkercad as a kid’s toy. It is easy enough for kids to learn and it uses bright colors looking more like a video game …read more Continue reading Tinkercad Continues to Grow Up
If you think about it, STL files are like PDF files. You usually create them using some other program, export them, and then expect them to print. But you rarely …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering STL Files with FreeCAD
If you want to print, say, a book, you probably will type it into a word processor. Someone else will take your file and produce pages on a printer. Your …read more Continue reading Word Processing: Heavy Metal Style
We aren’t sure if [Looking Glass Universe] didn’t trust the accepted number for Planck’s constant, or just wanted the experience of measuring it herself. Either way, she took some LEDs …read more Continue reading Don’t Believe Planck’s Constant? Measure It Yourself