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Did a bit of holiday writing about my first go with the Sheet Metal workbench in #FreeCAD, creating a #3d USB connector as a learning exercise in #3dmodeling

https://espenandersen.no/folding-sheet-metal-in-freecad/

Folding sheet metal in FreeCAD

Improve your modeling skills in FreeCAD with sheet metal workbench while designing intricate parts like a USB connector.

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Espen Andersen Dec 8

Hiding christmas calendar gifts in the garage, then letting the kids figure out my #3dprint hints

Espen Andersen Nov 23

Funny how I seem to have forgotten the good ol' scale #modeling kits with glue and sprues. How about combining #3dprinting and glue, to get the best of two worlds: #3dmodel whatever you want, and don't worry about printer limitations.

Espen Andersen Nov 21

Nerd tip: Stumbled over some third party #printable shrink tubes for my old #labelprinter and gave it a shot. Turned out to work wonders. It's just about perfect for #electronics #prototyping #breadboard #esp32 #shrinktubing All wires neatly labeled with signal names from the #schematics 🤩

Espen Andersen Nov 5

https://hackaday.com/2025/11/02/is-this-the-last-pcb-youll-ever-buy/

Is This The Last PCB You’ll Ever Buy?

Breadboards are great, but as the world moves more and more to having SMD as a standard, prototyping straight PCBs is becoming more common. If you’re mailing off to China for your PCBs, it&#8…

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Espen Andersen Oct 30

If all you have is a #3dprinter then everything begins to look like a #3dprint job.

Did a angled mounting adapter for a closet rod in #freecad #qcad ...

https://espenandersen.no/printing-an-angled-closet-rod-mount/

Espen Andersen Sep 27

Project weekend! PCB part placement in #KiCAD, alignment of the assembly in #QCAD and step-to-dxf exports in #FreeCAD.

My front panel "hat" for a #raspberrypi 5 is coming along.

Espen Andersen Sep 21

@FreeCAD There is a known bug in #FreeCAD 1.0.2 that results in segmentation fault whenever I try to export my model in WRML format:

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/issues/20303

A fix has yet to be merged into the weekly builds, so the issue still persists.

Does anyone here know of some other workaround until it's fixed? 🙂

Exporting to VRML (wrl) results in segmentation fault (11) · Issue #20303 · FreeCAD/FreeCAD

I have a reproducible crash on macOS in both FreeCAD 1.0 and 0.21: Start FreeCAD Create a new, empty file Open Part workbench Create a primitive (e.g. a sphere) Select the sphere in the model tree ...

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Espen Andersen Sep 19

Olly 👾Sep 19

Modernizing an Enigma Machine.

This project by [Miro] is awesome, not only did he build a replica Enigma machine using modern technologies, but after completing it, he went back and revised several components to make it more usable.

🖇️Check my Image Description’s🖇️

http://joo.kie.sk/?page_id=999

#enigma #machine #replica #diy #engineering #artist #media #history #tech #art #maker #news

Espen Andersen Sep 15

Done! You can get the model as a STEP file on my GrabCAD profile: https://grabcad.com/library/usb-a-connector-b13-7-vertical-1

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