The Construct is all about learning how to do things yourself. Whether that’s making a printed circuit board, machining out some parts, or just running your first 3D print, we want you to be the person doing it! Here is a repository of every tutorial we’ve created (and a few that we haven’t!), that cover all sorts of maker-related topics.
Want to contribute something? Feel like we’re missing a topic? Let us know!
3D Printing/3D Modeling
Our pages:
- Should I 3D print this?
- How to run a Print at The Construct:
- FDM
- SLA
- Elegoo Mars Pro (coming soon)
- Elegoo Saturn (coming soon)
- Designing for 3D printing
- 3D print post-processing (coming soon)
External resources:
- Print quality troubleshooting
- Great overview on 3D printing
- Reddit 3D printing community
- Thomas Sanlanderer on YouTube (great resource for learning about 3D printing)
- Thingiverse: The internet of 3D printable things
- GrabCad: Community-sourced mechanical parts
- What is Gcode? Here is all of it
Laser Cutting
Our pages:
- How to use the laser cutter:
External Resources:
Electronics
External resources:
- Eagle CAD tutorial
- KiCAD tutorials
- OSHpark: Our favorite source of PCBs
- PCBshopper: PCB cost comparison site
Software
External Resources: