What are your favorite resources to recommend for beginners?
I’m wanting to get interested for doing a cyberdeck case, and/or custom cluster racks for Raspberry Pi’s but any and all newbie resources would be appropriate for this question.
What are your favorite resources to recommend for beginners?
I’m wanting to get interested for doing a cyberdeck case, and/or custom cluster racks for Raspberry Pi’s but any and all newbie resources would be appropriate for this question.
I use FreeCAD for most of my stuff now, but I found it very, very hard until I watched some video tutorials. After a little training, I’m really happy with it. I tried OpenSCAD, and that can be a really good option depending on your background.
You will also need to choose a slicer, or try some different ones. A lot of people like the prusa slicer, but I’ve never tried it. I started with the cura slicer, and it worked well enough that I haven’t tried anything else. It seems that some people really like the new orca slicer, so that might be a good choice too.
If you can connect a computer to your printer (either raspi, or something else), some software to manage that is definitely helpful. Octoprint is the most popular option, and maybe the only one; so look that up if it’s something you think would be relevant for you. There is also something called Klipper for upgrading your printer’s firmware. Whether or not that’s for a “beginner” depends very much on what their background is, but it’s something to consider if the additional features sound worthwhile.
I don’t know if these are really the kinds of resource suggestions you had in mind though.
Any specific video suggestions for learning FreeCAD?
This is the one I started with; the ui has changed a little since then, but the basic info is still good I think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXN7TOg3kj4