John Clark Craig has authored more than a dozen successful computer programming books for Microsoft Press and O’Reilly Media. John has also enjoyed working as a software engineer on many world-class solar and wind energy projects. Two of his projects were featured on the covers of Scientific American and Popular Science magazines. He’s also the award-winning inventor of LucidLights and LucidBrakes, brilliant LED-based products you’ll be seeing soon in stadiums and events, and helping to make bicycles safer world-wide.
John and his wife EJ co-authored Secrets to Creating Passive Income, the best selling book that’s helping people help themselves by cashing in on the hundreds of opportunities around us all, just waiting to be tapped in to! John passionately wants to help everyone discover that they can actually do the things they love while collecting passive income.
OpenSCAD Cookbook: OpenSCAD Recipes for learning 3D modeling
This book is for Makers, Engineers, and anyone who wants to create 3D shapes for 3D printing or manufacturing.OpenSCAD has some great advantages over other software you might choose to use. It's free, runs on Windows, Macs, and Linux machines, has a much shorter learning curve, and it puts you in control of your designs instead of your designs controlling you!Using a fun, recipe-like pattern, this book guides you through simple 3D designs that cover 99% of the operations and techniques used day-to-day with OpenSCAD. You'll be baking and making in no time at all! Guidance is provided where you might need some of the more obscure features of the language, but the focus is on fast and efficient learning of the core basics.OpenSCAD works in a different way compared to the expensive commercial software packages typically used for 3D design. Instead of interactively choosing from a multitude of obscure, hard to remember icons, buttons, menus, and sub-feature options to sketch out your designs with a mouse, OpenSCAD lets you edit a text-based script that creates your 3D objects. You get the best of both worlds, because you can easily pan, rotate, and zoom to see your creations in space, but the creation of those shapes is much more in your control and understanding.
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