A multi-university research team, including the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, has developed A11yShape, a new tool designed to help blind and low-vision programmers independently create, inspect ...

This introductory workshop will provide you with the skills needed to design models for the Sandbox 3D printers. After completing this workshop you will be able to explain the basics of 3D printing ...

Welcome screen appears quickly, & 'Welcome to OpenSCAD' shows in Taskbar. (with non-nightly Icon) Click New, observe, Taskbar entry cleared, Variable ~10s before an empty Window is created, title ...

In our software overview you will find a range of different programs that are necessary for 3D printing. Here we summarize the most important CAD-programs for 3D models. 3D CAD software enables the ...

We’re big fans of OpenSCAD here at Hackaday — it’s free and open source software, runs on pretty much anything, and the idea of describing objects via code seems like a natural fit for producing ...

I was using the nightly snapshot of June 15th and everything worked. When I upstepped to Jul 27th (or even Jun 23rd), openscad started to crash for some workloads in my docker container (however, not ...

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Using off-the-shelf electronic components, a Raspberry Pi, and a 3D printer, it's possible to build your own working miniature classic Mac. Here's how. There is a lot of overlap between the maker ...

I've been sent some 2D drawings in Freecad format. I downloaded and installed it and read some tutorials but can't seem to work out how to do the really only one thing that I need to do: Make some ...

There’s an old saying that goes “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”, but around these parts a better version might be “If you can’t buy ’em, make ’em”. A rather large portion of the projects that have ...