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With this tag we aim to host an evolving suite of software and hardware tutorials for digital fabrication. It is curated and updated to contain relevant direction, best practices and advanced resources. This is what we find most effective in our laboratory.
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- Distributed Version Control : GIT | 2018 Feb 14 | 7 minute read
- Stuffing a circuit board | 2017 Feb 25 | 3 minute read
- Milling a circuit board | 2017 Feb 20 | 5 minute read
- HyperText Markup Language : HTML | 2017 Feb 08 | 5 minute read
- Cascading Style Sheets : CSS | 2017 Feb 08 | 2 minute read
Git is an actively maintained, free and open source, distributed version control system originally developed in 2005 by Linus Torvalds (Linux). Distributed version control systems help software development teams collaborate on projects' source code by maintaining a full history of file changes across a decentralized file system. The distributed architecture maintains a full history of all changes in every developer's local working directory, aka repository. Redundancy. Git is flexible. Git works across all platforms, supports branching and tagging as first class citizens and operations within, such as merging or reverting. Open sites such as GitHub or GitLab are fantastic for...
Freshly produced PCB in hand, it is now time to solder the electronic components. Soldering is tricky. Repetition is key. I am beginning to find an effective method varying my practice, trial and error. This is a road map of component placement from the FabTinyISP page. First, gather the components, or do not. I soldered two boards. The first, I gathered everything beforehand, the second time I grab componenets from their storage as I went along. Whatever, both worked. Just be careful not to lose any or return to the wrongly marked storage. The microcontroller and diode components are directional;...
The PCB is composed of a thin layer of copper, measuring in just microns of thickness, laminated onto FR1, phenolic paper. The pattern of copper connects a series of electronic components with electricity. If any unintentional connections are made, the whole system may be fried. While in subsequent posts, I will explore designing the etching patterns, this time around, I am using an open-source project developed in the FabLab ecosystem: the FabTinyISP version of an AVR ISP programmer/board. You can download the same PNG files I used for the traces and the board outline and read detailed build instruction on...
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the standard language for web pages and web applications. The language is written into a document that could be made in any type of word processing (i.e. textedit, notes), specialized webcoding application, or sometimes within a browser. That document is then saved on a webserver. A domain directs a visitor to that webserver and their browser renders the code. There is a basic structural semantic for levels of headings, paragraphs, sections, lists, everything. HTML is not meant to include stylization (font types, alignments, borders, everything). Adding that makes coding too unwieldly. The best way to...
CSS describes how HTML elements are displayed. Because one piece of CSS code can alter the behavior of all of any single HTML element throughout all the pages of one website (or even multiple websites), writing CSS can save loads of time and effort customizing appearances. CSS can add background images or color, borders, change font attributes such as: style, color, and/or typeface, set margins, adjust website sizes for different devices, create image galleries, all sorts of great stuff. This is CSS: selector { declaration: value; } Or from the version of this website dated 2017.2.21: body { font-family: 'courier...