Robotics – Arduino And Pi Projects – 3D Modelling – Flash Animation – Apps – IT – Plus More

Orbiter

Orbiter is a free space flight simulator provide by Dr Martin Schweiger of UCL Medical Physics. Fed up with space games that insult your intelligence and violate every law of physics? Orbiter is a simulator that gives you an idea what space flight really feels like today and in the not so distant future. And best of all: you can download it for free!

Celestia

Celestia is a 3D astronomy program created by Chris Laurel. The program is based on the Hipparcos Catalogue (HIP). Celestia allows users to travel through an extensive universe, modeled after reality, at any speed, in any direction, and at any time in history. Celestia displays and interacts with objects ranging in scale from small spacecraft to entire galaxies in three dimensions using OpenGL, from perspectives which would not be possible from a classic planetarium or other ground-based display.

NB : A number of excellent free add-ons for Celestia are available at the celestiamotherlode.

Space Engine

Space Engine – Is a free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets – all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.

Stage 9

Stage 9 – AKA – A Virtual Recreation Of The Star Ship Enterprise D, The ultimate goal for Stage 9 was to allow you to explore the sets of Star Trek The Next Generation in a detailed virtual recreation, it has subsequently become so much more, as it is now a walk  through, game, SIM and VR experience allowing you to fully explore the Star Ship Enterprise NCC – 1701 D in full 3D and VR as never before, and best of all it’s totally free! It is being built in Unreal Engine 4 because it’s one of the most user-friendly and powerful game engine platforms available today. All of the sets are in and working with ever increasing details in each, including some subtle easter eggs and different things to interact with in each room. Some of the LCARS displays can be interacted with allowing you to perform various actions in the game by pressing buttons on the displays. For now, it’s a walk through, it may become a game, but for now, we’re limiting our efforts to SIM / walk  through for PC, Mac, VR headsets, and possibly Linux.

NB : As of Wednesday 12th Sep 2018 the Stage 9 Project Team received a Cease and Desist order from CBS requiring them to cease development.

Outerra

Outerra, is a 3D planetary engine for seamless planet rendering from space down to the surface of the planet, it can use arbitrary resolution of elevation data, refining it to a centimeter resolution using fractal algorithms. In development since 2008.The engine renders high-quality terrain, texturing, flora and water flow, normal maps using relatively sparse and highly compressed data through fractal processing and other types of procedural generation. A combination of unlimited visibility, progressive download of data, procedural content generation and integrated vehicle and aircraft physics engines along with an embedded web browser for web service integration and more, have made this a very popular SIM / Engine for earth and space, and best of all the base package is free to download and use.

NB: The third picture from the left is Matt Lichy’s 57 Chevy Belair, with working doors, trunk, hood speedometer and gear shift – http://mlichy911.artstation.com/projects/dKDKw

Flight Gear

FlightGear is an open-source flight simulator.  It supports a variety of popular platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.) and is developed by skilled volunteers from around the world.  Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License. The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated and open flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, pilot training, as an industry engineering tool, for DIY-ers to pursue their favorite interesting flight simulation idea, and last but certainly not least as a fun, realistic, and challenging desktop flight simulator. We are developing a sophisticated, open simulation framework that can be expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in contributing. There are many exciting possibilities for an open, free flight sim. We hope that this project will be interesting and useful to many people in many areas.

GEO-FS

Geo-FS is a flight simulator with a global environment generated from satellite images and digital geographic data.
You can run it for free in your web browser without anything to install, subscribe to worldwide HD aerial images (suitable for VFR flight) or install one of the two available Apps on your mobile device. Visit the mobile page to learn more about each app version. For a complete list of instructions and controls etc click here.

Speed Dreams

Speed Dreams is an Open Source motorsport simulation (sim) and it is freely available. Speed Dreams is a 3D cross-platform, open source motorsport simulation and racing game. It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). For the moment, the supported platforms are Linux (x86, x86_64) and 32 bit Windows. The Mac OS X port is 95% finished,more volunteers are welcome. Speed Dreams is a fork of the open racing car simulator Torcs, aiming to implement exciting new features, cars, tracks and AI opponents to make a more enjoyable game for the player, as well as constantly improving visual and physics realism.

Flash MX

Macromedia Flash MX is a robust environment for developing online advertising, gams apps and multimedia content, using a GUI and coding combined.

EZ-Robot

EZ-Robot.com is used in over 10,000 robots! Program movements, vision object tracking and interactions with included software. Your robot will even respond to voice commands and is controlled from your mobile device! EZ-Robot Revolution introduces the world’s easiest, most powerful and creative robots for R&D, experimentation and STEM education. Revolution is modular, so there is no limit to your creativity. These robots are assembled with ez-bits using clip’n’play technology for endless configurations! There is absolutely nothing else like it!

ROS

The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a flexible framework for writing robot software. It is a collection of tools, libraries, and conventions that aim to simplify the task of creating complex and robust robot behavior across a wide variety of robotic platforms. Why? Because creating truly robust, general-purpose robot software is hard. From the robot’s perspective, problems that seem trivial to humans often vary wildly between instances of tasks and environments. Dealing with these variations is so hard that no single individual, laboratory, or institution can hope to do it on their own. As a result, ROS was built from the ground up to encouragecollaborative robotics software development. For example, one laboratory might have experts in mapping indoor environments, and could contribute a world-class system for producing maps. Another group might have experts at using maps to navigate, and yet another group might have discovered a computer vision approach that works well for recognizing small objects in clutter. ROS was designed specifically for groups like these to collaborate and build upon each other’s work, as is described throughout this site.

Generation Robots

Generation Robots, are keen to share their passion for robotics and programming, and have been since they first created the company in 2008. Their enthusiasm drives in in bringing together like-minded enthusiasts, which is why all their products have been selected on the basis of their quality, and that is why they enjoy helping us to discover or improve our understanding of this new, innovative and promising field. they are interested in building a different kind of relationship with their customers, they provide a high level of customer service and follow-up.

NB: Credit and copyright for the second picture of NAO belongs to Ed Alcock for Aldebaran Robotics.

VEX Assembler

VEX Assembler is a brand new, free design package made specifically for the VEX IQ robotics platform. VEX Assembler, powered by Autodesk® 123D®, brings the modern principles of computer-aided design (CAD) into an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface. Using Autodesk’s advanced 3D modeling engine, students now have the unlimited ability to realistically assemble and test VEX IQ mechanisms, gadgets, or even entire robots efficiently in a digital environment before ever starting physical construction.

Makeblock

Makeblock is an open source construction platform that turns your ideas into reality. No matter what your idea is and however impossible it looks like, Makeblock will make it possible by providing various mechanical parts and electronic modules, such as beams, plates, connectors, motors, brackets, sensors,drivers, controllers, and etc. Characterized by “Open, Fun, and Creative” thru mDrawbot, mBot, mElephant 3D Printer, XY Plotter,  Starter Robot Kit and Ultimate Robot Kit, Makeblock has become one of the best intelligent hardware companies that strive to make differences.

Fritzing

Fritzing is an open source hardware initiative, that makes electronics accessible to all. Fritzing offers a software tool, a community website and services amid at processing and microcontrollers, such as the Arduino board and commnity. Fritzing fosters a creative GUI and format that allows users to document their prototypes and share them with others. Fritzing is highly suited for teaching electronics in a classroom environment, and its modern layout is ideal for the manufacturing of professional PCBs.

Circuit JS

Circuit JS is an electronic circuit simulator, when the applet starts up you will see an animated schematic of a simple LRC circuit, which you can edit change, or create a new circuit(s), it has a built in oscilloscope.

Sigrok

Sigrok is a portable, cross-platform, free open source signal analysis software suite that supports various device types, such as logic analyzers, MSOs, oscilloscopes, multimeters, LCR meters, sound level meters, thermometers, hygrometers, anemometers, light meters, DAQs, data loggers, function generators, spectrum analyzers, power supplies, IEEE-488 (GPIB) interfaces, and more. It supports a wide variety of hardware. Protocol decoders are written in Python and can be stacked on top of each other.

SIMScale.com

SimScale is a revolutionary cloud-based CAE (Computer-aided engineering) platform that lets you seamlessly simulate, share, and collaborate in a community of 65000 engineering professionals.

Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Fluid analysis in your web browser The SimScale platform gives you access to sophisticated Fluid Dynamics simulation capabilities. Depending on
the Reynolds number of the fluid flow, laminar or turbulent models can be selected. The solvers support both steady-state and transient setups. Single and multiphase
flows can be analyzed, in addition to mass transport, and advanced modeling concepts.

Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Stress analysis in your web browser For your Structural Mechanics analyses, you can use linear static analysis to maximize your
computational efficiency or nonlinear analysis to better fully capture the physical behavior of the system. Dynamic, modal, and frequency analyses are also available.
All structural mechanics solvers support natively single parts or complete CAD assemblies.

Thermodynamics, Thermal analysis in your web browser Use SimScale to predict the behavior of your application under the influence of thermal effects. Capture the
structural response of a component to thermal loads or use the conjugate heat flow solver to understand the heat flow through adjacent solid and fluid regions.

BlueStacks

BlueStacks was founded in 2011 to push the boundaries of the mobile ecosystem. Today more than 130 million people around the world use our App Player product to run mobile apps and games on bigger screens using our patented Layercake technology. On the advertiser side we have a unique platform that combines digital and traditional advertising channels to maximize both in a way no one has done before. Join 130 million people around the world already getting fullscreen enjoyment from top apps and games like WhatsApp and Castle Clash. Our Best-in-Class “Layercake” technology enables even the most graphics-intensive games to run smoothly on your PC. BlueStacks App Player is the only Android Emulator supported with investment from Intel, Samsung, Qualcomm and AMD.

iPadian

iPadian, will allow you to feel and touch the new iOS 10 on your laptop with iPadian iOS 10 with many new features are now including like iMessages, Siri and App Store and you can Try Watch OS and TvOS. iPadian Aim is to bring all the Apple’s Ecosystem to anyone for free.

MIT App Inventor

MIT App Inventor 1 and 2, are an innovative beginner’s introduction to programming and app creation that transforms the complex language of text-based coding into visual, drag-and-drop building blocks. The simple graphical interface grants even an inexperienced novice the ability to create a basic, fully functional app within an hour or less.a cloud-based tool, which means you can build apps right in your web browser. This website offers all the support you’ll need to learn how to build your own apps.

Our mission, The MIT App Inventor project seeks to democratize software development by empowering all people, especially young people, to transition from being consumers of technology to becoming creators of it.

In our history, Google’s Mark Friedman and MIT Professor Hal Abelson co-led the development of App Inventor while Hal was on sabbatical at Google in 2009. Other early Google engineer contributors were Sharon Perl, Liz Looney, and Ellen Spertus. App Inventor runs as a web service administered by staff at MIT’s Center for Mobile Learning –
a collaboration of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the MIT Media Lab.

AI2

If you do not have an Android phone or tablet, you can still build apps with App Inventor. App Inventor provides an Android emulator, which works just like an Android but appears on your computer screen. So you can test your apps on an emulator and still distribute the app to others, even through the Play Store. Some schools and after-school programs develop primarily on emulators and provide a few Androids for final testing.

3uTools

3uTools for Windows and Apple can manage files, download apps/wallpapers/ringtones, flash, jailbreak, the Most Efficient iOS Files & Data Management Tool. 3uTools makes it so easy to manage apps, photos, music, ringtones, videos and other multimedia files. Fully view iOS device’s different statuses, including activation, jailbreak, battery and iCloud lock statuses, as well as detailed iOS & iDevice information.

iMazing

iMazing for Windows and Apple is trusted software to transfer and save your music, messages, files and data. Safely back up any iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Powerful and user-friendly, iMazing is simply the best iOS device manager for Mac and PC. Get full control over your iOS device. Get iMazing.

Cisco Packet Tracer

Cisco Packet Tracer is a powerful network simulation program that allows students to experiment with network behaviour and ask “what if” questions. As an integral part of the Networking Academy comprehensive learning experience, Packet Tracer provides simulation, visualization, authoring, assessment, and collaboration capabilities and facilitates the teaching and learning of complex technology concepts. Packet Tracer supplements physical equipment in the classroom by allowing students to create a network with an almost unlimited number of devices, encouraging practise, discovery, and troubleshooting. The simulation-based learning environment helps students develop 21st century skills such as decision making, creative and critical thinking, and problem solving. Packet Tracer complements the Networking Academy curricula, allowing instructors to easily teach and demonstrate complex technical concepts and networking systems design.

The Packet Tracer software is available free of charge ONLY to Networking Academy instructors, students, alumni, and administrators that are registered Academy Connection users, you can sign up for free here.

GNS3

Graphical Network Simulator-3 is a network software emulator first released in 2008. It allows the combination of virtual and real devices, used to simulate complex networks. It uses Dynamips emulation software to simulate Cisco IOS. GNS3 is used by many large companies including Exxon, Walmart, AT&T and NASA, and is also popular for preparation of network professional certification exams. As of 2015, the software has been downloaded 11 million times.

Wireshark

Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what’s happening on your network at a microscopic level. It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark development thrives thanks to the contributions of networking experts across the globe. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998.

Jmol

Jmol is an interactive web browser applet, Jmol is an open-source Java viewer for chemical structures in 3D with features for chemicals, crystals, materials and biomolecules.

Nanotube Modeler

Nanotube Modeler is a program for generating xyz-coordinates for Nanotubes and Nanocones. The Fullerene library by M.Yoshida may be accessed as well. Generated geometries may be viewed using the integrated viewer or by calling a viewer program of your choice. This program is based on the JNanotubeApplet but has improved and extended features.

Chemsketch

ACD/ChemSketch freeware is a drawing package that allows you to draw chemical structures including organics, organometallics, polymers, and Markush structures. Additional it also includes features such as calculation of molecular properties such as molecular weight, density, and molar refractivity etc. Moreover 2D and 3D structure cleaning and viewing, functionality for naming structures (fewer than 50 atoms and 3 rings), and prediction of logP.

Element Trek

Element Trek by David Barnhardt, is an interactive Periodic Table of the Elements, augmented with interactive animated 3D models of their crystal structures and a vast array of technical data, including 24 plot charts. Using the Bohr model, the electron shells and subshells are presented graphically with the ability to expand any atomic shell into its component subshells to see their electrons. Additionally, there is a scrollable chart that shows the positions of the relative energy levels for all of these shells and subshells, from lowest to highest, along with the magic numbers for filled shells.

WordPress.com Or WordPress.org

WordPress.com and WordPress.org are the easiest way to create a free website or blog. It’s a powerful hosting platform that grows with you. WordPress.com is optimized for SEO and getting your site in front of searchers on Google, Bing, Yahoo, and others. WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it. And now you can use your favourite – yes, you read that correctly, favourite with a ‘u’ – web software in the Queen’s English, or something closer to it anyway.

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