Tutorial Archives - Ipswich Makerspace

AutoDesk Fusion 360 walkthrough

June 15, 2016 by Keith Ellis Leave a Comment

The fourth Thursday of the month is approaching, that can only mean one thing. It’s talk night.

On Thursday 23rd June Keith will be giving us a broad overview of 3D modelling in AutoDesk Fusion 360. This is a powerful, easy to use modelling environment free to Makers for Windows and MacOS. It can produce very nice 3D renders as well as easily outputting files for 3D printing or laser cutting, with advanced CAM features and also allows movement studies and stress analysis to be carried out. Keith will outline the general workflow which he has come to know well whilst designing last years Pi Wars entry along, with a live demonstration and quick overview of the move advanced features.

: Wheel hub and motor

: Line sensor PCB mounted to chassis

: Looking awesome

See the event page for more information

Soldering tutorial

October 1, 2015 by Keith Ellis Leave a Comment

We had a great soldering tutorial at last weeks meeting, which was taken by Keith.

It consisted of a short presentation and then hands on with some Raspberry Pi kits to get some practice. It was enjoyed by all and most learnt something new and now have the confidence to get out the soldering irons and get soldering.

If you wanted to attend but could not, or even if you did attend and want a recap, the presentation is on the Makerspace wiki. Visit the wiki here:

Getting started with the Raspberry Pi

August 10, 2015 by Steve Chalkley 3 Comments

Originally posted by Kieth Ellis from Ipswich Makerspace.

“Ok, so I was going to write a guide to getting started with the Raspberry Pi. However Michael Horne the organiser of the Cambridge CamJam has already written an excellent article.

So take a look at this post and definitely look at the Raspberry Pi foundation website, they have a great resource page with lots of guides and ideas for things to do with your Pi.

http://www.recantha.co.uk/blog/?page_id=11986

https://www.raspberrypi.org/resources/

Once again, if you have any questions, just ask.”

Keith is one of the builders of our 2014 PiWars entry (which won its category) and was at the Ipswich Jam on Saturday demonstrating the robots.

Ryanteck Debug Clip

June 24, 2015 by Keith Ellis 1 Comment

The Ryanteck Debug Clip allows the Raspberry Pi serial console to be controlled over a standard USB cable from another computer. This is great where you have a headless Pi and are unable to get it on the network to SSH in. Ryanteck have provided instructions for using the Debug Clip with the Linux and Windows operating systems. But I use OSX on a Mac so I thought I’d give it a go to see if I could get it to work.

It turns out Ryan picked the Microchip MCP2221 IC as the brains of the board and this IC does not require any drivers on OSX 10.7 or greater. This is much better than the generic console cable I have been using to date where the driver needs to be re-installed after every OS update.

It was really easy to use, if you want to see how to use it yourself, take a look at this video I produced.