Tools

Google’s New Program ‘AutoDraw’ Will Help Your Drawings Suck Less

http://interestingengineering.com/googles-new-program-autodraw-help-drawings-suck-less/ AutoDraw uses machine learning to match your doodles with professional works in order to clean up a sketch. Simply pull up AutoDraw on your phone, tablet, or desktop computer and start sketching.  As you draw, image suggestions will appear above the drawing pad.  “We hope AutoDraw will help make drawing and creating a little

Soldering irons

A soldering iron is a hand tool used in soldering. It supplies heat to melt solder so that it can flow into the joint between two workpieces. For well over 4000 years mankind has known how to join metals together by soldering. In the 1800s and early 1900s soldering irons were still heated by flame.

Function generator kit

A function generator is usually a piece of electronic test equipment or software used to generate different types of electrical waveforms over a wide range of frequencies. Some of the most common waveforms produced by the function generator are the sine, square, triangular and sawtooth shapes. Function generators are used in the development, test and repair

EasyEDA circuit board design

EasyEDA is an integrated tool for schematic capture, circuit simulation and PCB layout that you use with your web browser.EasyEDA homepage advertises: “EasyEDA is a free, zero-install, Web and Cloud-based EDA tool suite, integrating powerful schematic capture, mixed-mode circuit simulator and PCB layout in a seamless cross-platform browser environment, for electronic engineers, educators, students and

CAD tools for programmers

OpenSCAD is a free software for creating solid 3D CAD objects. It is open source software that is available for Linux/UNIX, MS Windows and Mac OS X – and also a version that runs online in browser. After quick testing it looks like OpenSCAD is a really wonderful tool for 3D modeling. While it doesn’t have

20 Years of GIMP

GIMP the Free and Open Source, cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more. GIMP provides the tools needed for high quality image manipulation. Open source software GNU Manifesto turned 30 years on spring. Also GIMP celebrates round years: 20 Years of GIMP. November 21st 1995, few days over 20 years ago

KiCad video series: from concept to manufacture

Many electronics hackers have habit of using Eagle to design their PCBs. You’ll find plenty of support for this software as well as a lot of parts libraries, the free version of Eagle software comes with limitations (board area is limited to 4×3.2 inches, only two signal layers and the schematics editor can only create