Classes

3D Solid modeling

Reading

• https://urish.medium.com/designing-3d-printable-mechanisms-in-openscad-5838dcb65b39
• http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6455
• http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6549

Lesson plan

• Introduction to the Replimat CAD stack(s)
  • CSG and solid primitives
  • Boolean operations
  • 2D drawing with constraints and extrusion
  • OpenSCAD
  • NopSCADlib

Digital electronics

Tools

• PulseView

Reading

• Creating a PCB in Everything

Power electronics

• Battery electric solar power systems

Integrated circuit design

Tools

• ICEStudio

3D Printing and CNC machining

Lesson plan

• introduction to 3D printing
  • processes
  • design criteria
    • overhangs
    • delamination and through-hole orientation
    • sharp corners

Firmware development w/ C++, Rust

Lesson plan

• introduction to the AVR microcontroller
  • datasheet
  • avr-libc memory layout
  • arduino (avr-gcc, avrdude, IDE - wiring / processing)
    • building an arduino on a breadboard
  • electronics block diagram
• introduction to RepRap lineage firmwares
  • firmware block diagram
  • gcode parsing - marlin_main.cpp
  • motion planning - planner.cpp
  • stepper driving - stepper.cpp
  • time domains / block buffer
  • GPIO Pins
  • timers
  • interrupts
  • signal generation

Computer troubleshooting and repair

Reading

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• Computer Hardware Chart
• BIOS and UEFI
• smartmontools (smartctl -a), badblocks / memtest86+
• Linux startup process
• Smart Boot Manager
• PiKVM

Toolkit

• USB <-> Hard drive adapter
• Multimeter
• A Port 80 card for diagnosing POST problems
• a pre-configured, ready to launch, kernel compile (best memory test ever)
• PhotoRec - recover files without needing to recover partitions
• TestDisk - recover partitions & files
• gparted - create, copy, edit, resize, and delete partitions graphically
• ddrescue
• dmidecode
• flashrom
• Etherboot/gpxe, iSCSI, ATAoE
• kvm, libvirt, virt-manager