Subject

Tutorials and Help Pages

Design tools

• Cobalt tutorial
• 3D modeling diatribe: should I use Rhino or Cobalt? (Hayes Raffle)
• Folding Tutorial: how to model a polyhedron by "folding up" flat polygons

Gershenfeld | Sawhney

Laser, Waterjet,
NC knife cutting

• Converting Gerber to HPGL FILES (by C. Scott Ananian)
• Laser Cutter Tutorial
• Water Cutter Tutorial
• Manuals for the Laser Cutter and Water Cutter
• Rasterizing images on the lasercutter

Gershenfeld | DiFrancesco

Microcontroller
programming

• Joe Paradiso's Electronics Primer Notes (updated by Michael Sung)
• Useful Electronic Parts and Circuits Information (scanned by Michael Sung)
• Simple Pseudo-Random Sound Generator Example
• Driving Stepmotors (by Axel Kilian)
• Color coding of resistors (by Saoirse Higgins)
• Web sites used for help with circuit design (by David Merril, Kyle Steinfeld):
  http://www.findchips.com/
  http://www.digikey.com/ (voted " the best source")
  http://www.google.com/ PIC
  http://www.TI.com
• Midi stuff:
  http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~tigoe/pcomp/pic/pic-midi-pbpro.shtml
  http://www.midi.org/about-midi/abtmidi.htm
  http://www.weir.net/~mwhitco/ http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall02/cs436/InputMIDI/midielec.html
  useful book: "Practical Electronics for Inventors" (good theory explanations, bad schematics

Mikhak | Lyon

Machining

• Waterjet: cutting glass
• Modela instructions
• 3D printer instructions
• John's FabLab Tutorials

Gershenfeld | DiFrancesco

Circuit design

• Problem and Turorial ( by Nadya)
• Joe's Electronics Primer (by Mike Sung)
• Useful Circuit and Parts Info (by Mike Sung)
• Steppermotor with PIC (axel)

3D printing
NC machining

• Waterjet: cutting glass
• Modela instructions
• 3D printer instructions
• John's FabLab Tutorials

PCB design
and fab

• Making a new Schematic/PCB part in Protel '99 (by David Merrill)
• Carving a Protel circuit board on the Roland Mill (Additional suggestions from Hayes Raffle)
• Making a PCB fixture bed (instructions and CAD files, by CSA)

 Forming and joining 

• Handy Page of links to Forming and Joining resources

Sensors, actuators,
and displays

• Joe P Revisited

3D input

Wired and wireless
communications 

• Networking standards definitions (Axel Kilian with Krikorian)
• Networking hardware schematics, assembly code and ORCAD files
• Presentation by Raffi Krikorian

Project
presentations