Maker and tinkerer, writer for @HackSpaceMag, @tindie, @FreeCADNews, @KidsCodeCS + others, Forged in the heart of a mountain. concretedog.blogspot.com
North Wales UK
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Woohoo! My @FreeCADNews book "FreeCAD for Makers" is out and available for free download! Huge thanks to @Raspberry_Pi and @HackSpaceMag crew for getting it together and @yorikvanhavre for the foreword! #opensource #CAD #CAM #FEM #Makers hackspace.raspberrypi.com/bo…
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Realtime performance of @FreeCADNews 1.1.0 Assembly workbench
Modeled in context (top down) completely in FC
Assembly with: 11 fixed, 3 revolute, 2 gears constraints
Hardware: MSI Cyborg, i5-13420H, 4050RTX,
Viewport navigation by @3Dconnexion spacemouse
piped.video/@OficineRobotica
For the love of god @BBCWalesNews all your graphics are in SI units for your weather but your journo team constantly use imperial units. Anyone under mid 50's now educated in metric.
First @FreeCADNews job of the year! Not massive but I've printed some of these heltech cases for @TheMeshtastic but they needed an attachment point for clipping to a rucksack strap etc. A small job for FreeCAD but a great example of the usefulness of #CAD and #3dPrinting.
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#FLOSS projects really appreciate when folks QA test their release candidates. After going through a pretty involved FC v1.0 release, we can attest to this. Please consider volunteering to test drive + report feedback to #KiCAD.
Congrats on the expected 9.0.0 release date 🍻
The KiCad project is excited to announce the first release candidate for the next major version is available for testing. Version 9.0.0 is expected to be released by 01/31/25.
New features can be found here forum.kicad.info/t/post-v8-n…
Packages are available kicad.org/download/
Really proud to see @TheMagPi issue 159 with a piece I wrote about the fantastic @FreeCADNews version 1.0. Damn proud to represent the communities hard work and commitment to create an amazing milestone release. #CAD #CAM
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🚀 Our buddy David Carter (@DavesRocketShop who's now on @bluesky) got a shout-out in 'Peak of Flight' #Rocketry magazine recently (issue #641) for the #FreeCAD #Rocket workbench and its #CFD/#FEM capabilities. Onward and Upward 🚀🚀🚀 apogeerockets.com/Peak-of-Fl…
Spending a lot of time working in the @FreeCADNews mines at the moment. Really enjoying both 1.0 stable and 1.1 dev. #CAD #CAM
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#FreeCAD #tutorial familiarize yourself with the revolution tool. Simple and instructional.
blog.freecad.org/2024/12/13/… #FLOSS #FOSS @OpenSource #CAD #3DCAD
Super excited to have my #opensource #rocketry talk accepted for @fosdem .. there'll be loads of talk of @FreeCADNews @kicad_pcb #openrocket and many mentions for @DavesRocketShop :)
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KiCad Version 8.0.7 Released
The KiCad project is proud to announce the latest version 8 bug fix release. See the blog post on the KiCad website for more information about this release.
The mirrors will be up soon.
kicad.org/blog/2024/12/KiCad…
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🔊 Quick #FreeCAD #Tutorial on customizing the User Interface
👉Change the order of the workbenches per your workflow.
👉Choose the TabBar option to display workbenches (instead of the dropdown).
v1.0 has more #UI tweaks than any previous version. Onward! blog.freecad.org/2024/12/03/…
Please, for the love of god @NickServini can you use UK standard SI units ... mm, cm, metres.
why do @BBCWalesNews insist on using imperial units for stuff... I'm near 50 yrs and was never taught this stuff. The other week Nick Savvini was saying "6 inches of rain" and tonight it's a "40 foot sinkhole". Other beeb news use SI units... drives me old man nuts.
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EcoCell LithiumSafe PCB #TindieBlog #Reduce #Reuse #Recycle #LiPo #DisposableVape #BatteryManagement
blog.tindie.com/2024/11/ecoc…
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🍻🥂 every time a different downstream repo updates to the latest #FreeCAD v1.0 stable 😇
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Dear all... (especially the haters and uninformed)
