These tools have been in use so far to create Exertion Instruments. Please continue to fill them in:
Drill and Screw Charts
Good music to listen to do while doing this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zi8mzeISqI
math chatroom http://www.jasymchat.com/
LTSpice
http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/#LTspice
http://ltspice.linear.com/software/LTspiceGettingStartedGuide.pdf
http://ltwiki.org/index.php5?title=Main_Page
Electrical
http://www.beldynsys.com/quadpacks.htm adaptor boards for more easy prototyping with SMD
http://www.protoadvantage.com - adaptor boards for more easy prototyping with SMD
http://www.spinsemi.com/forum/index.php - small but awesome music processor/synthesizer/DSP chip company
http://www.dorkbotpdx.org/wiki/pcb_order - a group of hackers who combine circuit board orders into one to save money and time.
PSoC (Cypress) - Programmable System on a chip. 8-pin MCU with programmable analog and digital blocks. DIP and SMD packages.
QUCS - Free, open source circuit simulator. Runs on Apple, Linux and Windows. Simulates amplifier and power supply circuits.
Eagle PCB Editor - Schematic and Circuit board editor. Very free. Runs well on Apple, Linux and Windows. Pay an upgrade if you want to edit boards larger than about 4x6 inches.
http://www.asiinstr.com/technical/Dielectric%20Constants.htm
http://www.lightobject.com/CNC-CO2-Laser-C11.aspx?s=OrderBy%20ASC&c=11&p=2
http://www.falstad.com/circuit/ It's a pretty friendly looking java UI around a circuit simulator. seph
still think that LTspice is the best aroudn general purpose analog circuit simulator
Falstad circuit simulator is awesome!
It seems like it's set up mostly for "signal" stuff, so for example the analog switches and MOSFETs have fairly high default resistance values ~5 Ohm for an n-fet and ~20 for the analog swtich.
BUT since it's open source you can download the whole thing and tweak these. So if you like playing with dangerously large components like some people, you can make a "power" version pretty easily. I don't even know Java and I did it in about an hour, just by searching for the resistance values and changing them. :)
LTSpice is also cool...
-Shane
Design
Google Sketchup - free, OSX & Win drawing, 3D-Modeling software
Programming
Cross Pack (Objective Development) - Development environment for writing coding/programming on AVR/AtMega/ATTiny chips. Mac version here.
Physical Construction
Machines That Make Machines - MIT CBA Project
Gear DXF - Generates gears well, but not gear racks. For gear racks, get your hands on OMAX. Windows only.
OMAX Layout Generates gears and gear racks well. Windows Only.
Organizing
Bubbl.us - Online Mind Mapping software.
Math
Octave - Free clone of MATLAB for Apple, Linux, Windows and others. A very good number-crunching piece of software. Has no graphics unless you install a second package.
R (Free, open source software) - Free clone of MATLAB for Apple, Linux, Windows and others. A very good number-crunching piece of software. Graphics modules available.
Open Office (F/OSS) - draws decent, simple graphs. Good spreadsheet.
http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html
Web
These aren't favorites yet. They remain to be evaluated.
Stack Overflow - A rundown of various graph layout (GUI for Max/MSP or PD) libraries for JavaScript
flare -
Plot Kit -
jsviz -
google's visualization stuff - lots of application-specific libraries, like gant charts.
Comments (0)
You don't have permission to comment on this page.