Resources

This page gathers all the resources used during this course as well as additional resources that will allow you to deepen your knowledge and master prototyping even better!

Part 1: Basics

Prototype

• Definition of Fablabs on the Fabfoundation website
• Maps of fablabs on fablabs.io and makery.info
• Presentation of the fabcity project
• UrbanNext article on the FabCity
• Time article on Thomas Edison
• Interview with the developers of the Nintendo Wii U

Quick and Dirty

• Jude Pullen's cardboard shaping tutorials
• Jude Pullen's other videos on cardboard shaping
• MakingSociety's article on the possibilities of cardboard
• Isabelle Armstrong's article on prototyping a cordless screwdriver
• The tool for an iterative practice, by the Bam Collective

Drawings

• Wikipedia article on drawing
• Website of the designer and illustrator Marius Kindler, his drawings are also visible on his Behance page
• The site of the littelinventors project of the designer Dominic Wilcox
• Definition of 2D and 3D models
• The basics of technical drawing

2D Design

• Illustrator user guide.
• List of Illustrator keyboard shortcuts.
• Illustrator tutorials on the Adobe website.
• Gravit youtube channel with tons of videos on how to use it.
• Gravit tutorials, to improve your graphic design skills.
• Bézier Game a game to help you master the pen tool.
• The Noun Project, icons that you can get as vector drawings (.stl)

Laser Cutting

• Wikipedia article on the LASER
• How a CO2 laser works
• Table of materials that can be machined with a CO2 laser

3D Design

• TinkerCAD, the tool used in this course to model in 3D
• Starter kits to learn how to use TinkerCAD
• Vectary, an alternative to TinkerCAD that also allows 3D modeling directly in a browser.

Impression 3D

• 3D Printing Overview Video
• Download Z-Suite, the software to prepare a 3D print on Zortrax printers
• Z-Suite software manual

Part 2: Exploration

Exploration

Sites where to find projects:

• Instructables
• Thingiverse
• Wikifab
• Wikifactory
• Lowtechlab
• Hackaday
• Media.mit
• Ouiaremakers
• Youmagine
• Howtopedia
• Makezine

Additive Manufacturing

• History of 3D printing
• 3D printing use guide for prototyping
• Presentation of the different materials that can be used with the Zortrax 3D printer
• Heliox's Youtube channel which presents different aspects of 3D printing, but not only!

Subtractive manufacturing

• Articles and videos of different subtractive manufacturing techniques:
• Milling
• Turning
• Laser cutting
• Water jet cutting
• Plasma cutting
• Blade cutting
• Bent wood, a collection of patterns to make flexible wood!
• Templatemaker, to make paper objects from parametric templates
• Makercase, a must-have site to generate laser-cut boxes
• Boxes.py, very complete site to generate different boxes and objects
• Gear generator, to make your gears and download them in svg format
• The basics of CNC machining (vidéo HUBS)
• Other HUBS videos on CNC machining
• Slicer, a software to create 3D volumes from 2D parts