0. FabAcademy & Raspberry Pi¶
As you will see in my first assignment, I will try to make the FabAcademy
moslty with the RaspberryPi.
I started with a Raspberry Pi3b but I got really limited even for documenting
through VNC Viewer. So I switched to the Raspberry Pi4 4GB.
The table below presents how this Pi can be used for the Fabacademy, with which software and its
weakness. Not all weeks will appear because some of them use the same software, or
no specififc software was used.
The result will be shown with the following code :
: all clear to use the Pi
: It can be done but be patient
: You will have a hard time
: My recommandation
| Subject | Software | Pass/Fail |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Principles and Practices | GIT | |
| 2. Computer Design | Blender | Can be installed but crashes when opening file |
| FreeCAD | Can be installed but crashes when opening file |
|
| Rhino/GH | N/A | |
| Xdesign | |
|
| InkScape | |
|
| ImageMagick | - perfect for terminal |
|
| 3. Computer-controlled Cutting | FreeCAD | |
| 4. Electronic Production | Candle | |
| Mods | for big images you easily ovewhelm the memory |
|
| Fab Modules | |
|
| 5. 3D Printing & Scanning | Cura | |
| Meshroom | no because 64bits |
|
| RepCap photo | ||
| Skanect | ||
| MeshLab | it runs ok with reasonable mesh |
|
| 6. Electronic Design | KICAD | |
| 7. CNC Milling | Rhino CAM | |
| 8. Embedded Programming | Arduino | - really easy and straight forward to use |
| ESP-IDF | |
|
| PlatformIO | - So cool to work in the terminal |
|
| MicroPython | |
|
| ThonnyIDE | |
|
| 14. Interface | FireFly | |
| Processing | It works but is really slow even for the coding interface. Specially if used headless |
|
| Mosquitto | |
|
| Node-Red | Really cool way of piping data ! |
|
| Nginx | My first server |
|
| Influx-DB | |
|
| AppInventor | |
Last update: May 17, 2021