http://academy.cba.mit.edu/classes/computer_design/index.html
Student Reviews:
- Microphones far in the corners of a glass window can be used to calculate the position of an interaction with the window based on the time the signal takes to reach each microphone. Piezo microphones work fine. @andy
- Tim Rolls does generative art, which interests me, i’ll check it out…
- There is material online on designing with cnc machines interactively
- Lucio Pentagna builds a vending machine - @andy
2D Design:
- There is a fork of imagemagick: http://www.graphicsmagick.org/
- Nice hand-drawn circuit: http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.15/section.CBA/people/Schaad/week6-electronics-design.html
- Inkscape can “clone” objects (same as symbols in Sketch)
- FreeCAD can handle constraints in 2D
3D Design:
- Blender has something like grasshopper: http://nikitron.cc.ua/sverchok_en.html
- Custom CAM solution for Rhino: https://github.com/fellesverkstedet/Bark-beetle-parametric-toolpaths
- FreeCAD also supports “clones”, can act non-destructive, and features “Spreadsheets” to define variables / parameters
- Autodesk products are free for Fablabs
- Solidworks is good for big projects, meaning complex or many people working on
- Onshape is a higher-end browser/cloud based 3D design software
- Check antimony for its parametricity
- Simulation: Solidworks and Autodesk have simulation built-in
- Antimony + OpenSCAD ?= http://graphscad.blogspot.de/