ST-Developer - STEP Tools, Inc. Since 1991, ST-Developer has been the most reliable, best performing, easiest to use, and most broadly supported SDK for STEP, STEP-NC, IFC, and related digital manufacturing standards! Add ST-Developer libraries to your software to read and write STEP CAD, CAM, and IFC BIM data, verify and view the results, ship your applications easily, and let our trained support staff guide you through the complexities of digital manufacturing data! Other features and recent additions include: STEP Faceting library that transforms STEP geometry into triangular meshes for display in an OpenGL, WebGL or other applications. New platform support for Visual Studio 2013 and 2012, MacOS Mavericks and the latest Clang-based Xcode, and shared libraries for Mac/Linux. Try before you buy with ST-Developer Personal Edition!
FreeCAD : Le modeleur CAO paramétrique libre FreeCAD est un modeleur 3D paramétrique fait principalement pour concevoir des objets réels de toutes les tailles. La conception paramétrique permet d'éditer facilement votre design en remontant dans l'historique du modèle afin d'en changer les paramètres. FreeCAD est libre et fortement personnalisable, scriptable et extensible. FreeCAD est multiplatefome (Windows, Mac et Linux) et ouvre et sauvegarde de nombreux formats de fichier tels que STEP, IGES, STL, SVG, DXF, OBJ, IFC, DAE et beaucoup d'autres. En savoir plus... À qui FreeCAD s'adresse? L'utilisateur occasionnel ou le bricoleur. L'utilisateur CAO expérimenté. Le programmeur. L' éducateur. verb - A CAD Library for the Web
Mug Music: Turn Water Into an Instrument with Arduino and ChucK What if you could turn any conductive surface into an instrument? Like, say...a mug of water? Best of all, it's cheap; you'll only need $1 worth of extra electrical components (not including the Arduino). For this project, my friend Harvest and I combined Disney's Touché touch-sensing system with Arduino, and then used ChucK to generate music based on the input. Some thank-you's are in order: Prerequisites: You will find this Instructable much easier to follow if you have a basic understanding of circuits. Common problems, things to watch out for, etc: Make sure your laptop is properly grounded when you do this (e.g. plug it into a wall). Github: A .zip download of all code is available at the next step, but here's the github repo if you want to download the code from there as well. More projects: Check out my blog at bonnie-eisenman.tumblr.com to see what I'm up to.
JNetCAD JNetCAD ... ... the Java-Application for viewing and converting CAD data. JNetCAD is a simple Java GUI for importing and exporting several CAD formats. Each im- and export module exists as JAR library and can be used separately in other projects. Im- and exporter concept As mentioned above, the im- and export modules have been implemented as independend Java libraries, which can be used as loaders (for viewer, analyzer, ...) and conversion tools. Conversion example: JT -> JSON / CTM (WebGL) Here is an embedded example of the conversion from JT to JSON (WebGL). Screenshot (Firefox) Rotation: Left mouse button Translation: Right mouse button Scale: Wheel mouse button Click here for full screen with picking feature. Conversion example: JT -> 3D-PDF Licence All components can be used in non commercial or educational projects for free. Donation Downloads
Making music with JELL-O and 10 other foods And to think, we were always told as kids not to play with our food! Over the last couple of months, we’ve seen a number of edible musical arrangements from chicken nuggets to sushi. Thanks to Nashville and Atlanta-based ad agency redpepper, we can add one more piece of food to the list: JELL-O. In an effort to “make capacitive touch more festive and jiggly,” the team created a keyboard using an [Atmel-based] Arduino and several LED lights embedded inside small JELL-O molds, each programmed to play different Piezo tones when tapped. Hungry for more meal-inspired, piano-like music? Gingerbread Houses Chicken McNuggets Sushi Veggie Burgers Bananas Pizza Carrots Hershey Kisses French Cuisine Oranges Like this: Like Loading... Related Turning chicken nuggets and sushi into music with MaKey MaKey In "Arduino" Happy Hallow-uino! Let’s face it, Halloween is arguably one of, if not, the best night to be a Maker -- a celebration full of carving, candy consumption, and of course, DIY props and costumery.
3D printing from Tinkercad We’re delighted to announce that Tinkercad, a very easy-to-use CAD tool that runs in a browser (via WebGL), now offers a one-click support to our i.materialise 3D printing service. Thanks to this feature, getting an idea designed, printed, and in your hands is truly a piece of cake. Tinkercad is very user-friendly: with only three tools, a wide variety of designs can easily be made in Tinkercad in 5 minutes, or less. And remember, you can do all of this  in your browser with no installation required. Once your project is ready, simply click on the “Print 3D” button in the upper right-hand corner of the editor. Your design will be sent to the i.materialise 3D print lab, where you can choose from a variety of materials and colors. Add the design to your cart, place the order, and within a couple of days you will be showing off your design to everyone you know. Designing and 3D printing your own designs, like the connection piece pictured below has never been easier.
BrutBox, la musique DiY qui adoucit le handicap Nantes, envoyée spéciale (texte et photos) Rien de tel qu’un projet fédérateur pour motiver les troupes, parfois dispersées, du DiY. Surtout quand il s’attaque à la délicate question du handicap. L’initiative BrutBox, portée par le collectif de musique expérimentale BrutPop et LFO, le fablab de l’association marseillaise Réso-nance numérique, permet aux personnes en situation de handicap physique ou mental de créer de la musique par la lumière, le toucher, le mouvement et même via leurs ondes cérébrales à l’aide de boîtiers de commande ultra simples à manipuler, mais bourrés de capteurs. Démonstration et explications sur le fonctionnement de la BrutBox: Un outil tout terrain « Avec ces publics, il faut limiter le nombre d’infos et travailler pas à pas », explique David Lemoîne, chanteur du groupe Cheveu et membre de BrutPop lors de la présentation de ce projet d’ergothérapie musicale devant un public de curieux et d’éducateurs pendant le festival Scopitone à Nantes. La prochaine étape ?
Shapesmith – An Open Source Web-based 3D Modeler EmailShare 4EmailShare iPhone dock created in Shapesmith and printed on Thing-O-Matic How can I model the thing I want to print? As the population of 3D printer operators continues to grow, answering that question will become more important than ever. Combining parametric modeling and a clean UI, browser-based Shapesmith hopes to provide an open source answer. The developer, MakerBot operator, and Thingizen Benjamin Nortier tells us all about it. Q: Who are you and what is Shapesmith? I’m a software developer with an Engineering background and I’m also a 3D printing enthusiast. I wanted to design an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) after being inspired by DIY Drones. Because I had worked on a 3D CAD tool for electromagnetic simulation earlier in my career, I was very dissatisfied by the free design tools that were available. Q: Why did you decide to open source it under the Apache license? Two of my favourite open-source projects, Riak and CouchDB, are licensed under Apache. And Javascript!
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