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Kia ora! Welcome to the Design Tech blog. This is the virtual home of the design technicians and where we will be posting articles, links, and general information related to design technology.
Design Tech Blog
2M ago
Draw what you want, where you want, and label the functions. You can also iterate the designs.
https://makereal.tldraw.com/
Note: It does require an openAI account and credits to use.
(can't believe this works) pic.twitter.com/pMb6xfk21i
— tldraw (@tldraw) November 14, 2023 ..read more
Design Tech Blog
2M ago
Design tools for laser cutting
Pre-fab shape tools such as boxes with a tutorial here
https://www.festi.info/boxes.py/
https://en.makercase.com/#/
Finger joint Generator
https://clementzheng.github.io/joinery/
Paper objects:
https://www.templatemaker.nl/en/
Cone template generator:
https://www.blocklayer.com/cone-patterns.aspx
Stencil fonts:
http://stencilfy.herokuapp.com/
Single stroke font creator:
https://www.templatemaker.nl/singlelinetext/
SVG Vector images
https://www.flaticon.com/
Gears:
Involute spur gears
Spur Gears
Gear simulator
Mazes:
Lase ..read more
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2M ago
This tutorial by Bare Conductive utilizes Processing, a Raspberry Pi, and conductive paint to create an interactive art installation utilising projection-mapping ..read more
Design Tech Blog
2M ago
A small quadrupedal robot dog. Lingkang Zhang’s blog has excellent documentation (mainly videos) describing different features of the Quadruped ..read more
Design Tech Blog
2M ago
This is a cool, step-by-step walkthrough on how to build and create your own Split flap display.
These displays are tileable (i.e. can be stacked without interfering with each other ..read more
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2M ago
LEET is Johan Von Konow’s modular affordable synth you can build yourself. It consists of several MIDI devices that can be used together or separate with your preferred DAW. This page includes the 3d print file, the code, and an innovative circuit board system.
Other cool projects on Johan’s website include a 3d-printable Eurorack modular synth, and a 3d printable Gameboy-style console ..read more
Design Tech Blog
2M ago
www.circuito.io is a useful prototyping tool for electronic schematics.
Use this to get an idea of how you might wire up your projects ..read more
Design Tech Blog
4M ago
Capacitive touch modules are built into a lot of devices and are now really easy to integrate into projects. These little modules are digital switches/buttons that can be built into things and even sense through tabletops. They can also be configured to output a high or low signal on activation and to be latching like a switch, or momentary like a push button.
The module has three connections for power and one output. They use the TTP223 control chip which has a couple of selectable options.
There are two solderable jumper selectors on the electronics side of the touch module. these are label ..read more