Introduction When you purchase a Raspberry Pi 4, you will need some additional items to make it operational. These include: 1) monitor, 2) keyboard, 3) mouse, 4) power supply, 5) HDMI cable to connect to the monitor, and 6) an operating system (Raspbian Buster) on a micro SD card. Purchases From: Pimoroni…

Introduction When you purchase a Raspberry Pi, you will need some additional items to make it operational. These include: 1) monitor, 2) keyboard, 3) mouse, 4) power supply, 5) HDMI cable to connect to the monitor, and 6) an operating system (Raspbian Stretch) on a micro SD card. Purchases From: Adafruit: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3775 Raspberry…

When using the latest version of Raspbian Stretch, a variable named VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON must be set to the path of the python version that you want to use when creating virtual environments. You can create python virtual environments that use python2.7, python3.5, python3.6 or python3.7. We will use python3.5. Set the…

The Run Button The toolbar in Codeblocks now looks like this: Following the Speed: slider is the “Run” button. Clicking on the Run button

It takes just a few minutes to design a nameplate using the Codeblocks application in Tinkercad. The export button in Codeblocks quickly creates a .stl for the nameplate to be 3D printed. Here are the codeblocks for a nameplate: The white box with a height of 2 mm serves as…

If you are not familiar with Tinkercad’s Codeblocks see An Introduction to Tinkercad Codeblocks. Objects in Codeblocks may be considered to be parts. To illustrate this, consider designing a wrench. …

One of the benefits of using tinkercad codeblocks is that you can easily create patterns that can be used to decorate your 3D prints. A good example of this is the Tea Light Holder: The basic pattern for this is simple and shown below as four holes.

If you are not familiar with Tinkercad’s Codeblocks see An Introduction to Tinkercad Codeblocks. Objects in Codeblocks may be considered to be parts. To illustrate this, consider designing a wrench. …

The addition and subtraction operations on 3D Shapes are built into Tinkercad. Both the addition and subtration operations are executed by the Create Group codeblock. The result is a new object. Click on the Export button to export the object as a .stl file (for 3D printing). If you are…