I cut my teeth at Autodesk on their big flagship product, and I did that for eight years, so I gained a lot of experience with what computer aided design is all about, and then decided after sometime that I wanted to go off and do some travel, and so I did that. This is my second time working for them, and I was hired onto the AutoCAD team. My very first job out of college was actually with Autodesk. I decided that I was really interested in electronics, and that was where I wanted to go, and then somehow ended up as life is unexpected, I ended up doing software. I went to school for actually Electrical Engineering. Joshua, before we start talking about TinkerCAD, I was wondering if you could tell us a little bit about your background and how you ended up working with TinkerCAD.

The reason I wanted to reach out here is because I know that so many people are finding 3D printing, especially as it goes along with Arduino projects so helpful. Joshua works at Autodesk, and they’ve got this really cool program called ‘TinkedCAD’, and it’s this simple online 3D design, and it’s this 3D printing app, and hopefully we’re going to learn all about it today. Thank you for coming on and talking to us. Without further ado, let’s go ahead and start the show. Obviously, it’s been around for a while now, so I thought this would be helpful.

Those are the kind of things we’re going to talk about, and the reason I wanted to get Joshua on the show is because I know so many people end up getting into 3D printing for parts with their project. You can throw Arduino into the circuit, and you can actually test it with the code right there on TinkerCAD. It’s used specifically for 3D printing, but it also has a software simulation side where you can create circuits and run them and test them. TinkerCAD is an online 3D design program. His name is Joshua Brooks, and he works for a company called ‘Autodesk’, and they’ve got a bunch of different software, but the software we’re going to talk about is TinkerCAD. We’ve got a really interesting guest today. Hello, this is Michael with Programming Electronics Academy.

Joshua Brooks teaches us all about TinkerCAD, a free and easy to use browser based software for 3D Modeling and Simulation.

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