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Win a 1 month premium subscription to the lynda.com software Online Training Library July 11
100 softwares, 1066 courses, 63,528 tutorials
Update: Congratulations to Deborah, Joel, Nic, Sam, and Summer!
We hope you enjoy your premium 1 month subscription to lynda.com and become design software gurus!
This month the Ponoko blog is partnering with lynda.com to give 5 winners a free, 1 month premium subscription to the lynda.com Online Training Library.
If you’re not familiar with lynda.com, its a virtual mecca for online learning of software. They’ve got top-notch courses — uncountable hours really — of video training on a 100 different softwares.
Course subjects include 3D, Animation, Audio, Business, Design, Development, Home Computing, Photography, Video, Web + Interactive.
But we think all you makers out there will really like the 3D & Design stuff.
There are courses on 3ds Max, AutoCAD, Blender, CorelDRAW, Freehand, SketchUp, Illustrator, Maya, Rhino, ZBrush and more.
And each course has free tutorials, (10% of the entire library is free actually.) so you can get an idea of what that course offers and decide if you want to subscribe.
A subscription gives you access to the entire lynda.com library. A premium subscription — which is what we’re giving away — gives you full access plus the actual files used in the exercises.
Other cool features of lynda.com are new releases every week and searchable closed captions for several of the videos.
Win a free, 1 month premium subscription and jump into your own software summer school with lynda.com. Just leave a comment stating:
1. What software listed at lynda.com you are most excited about learning
2. What you would make with Personal Factory using your new software skills
The contest closes at 10pm pacific on Friday, July 29. 5 winners will be chosen at random from qualifying comments and notified the first week of August.
And if you’re new to Ponoko and Personal Factory, here’s the run down. Or you can sign up for a free Personal Factory account and we’ll send you a nice ‘n neat orientation email about how we turn your design files into real, super awesome stuff.
July 11th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
I would love to learn more about advanced photography and photoshop usage.I think it would be fabulous to combine the photography with home decor items. Lamps, artwork and more.
July 11th, 2011 at 9:21 pm
Does all of it work for answer #1? Specifically I want to learn inventor so I work on my redesigned Egg-Bot to print on entire spheres instead of the strip in the middle of an egg.
July 11th, 2011 at 10:04 pm
1. Using the 1 month lynda.com subscription I would love to learn how to use 3ds max and brush up on my Sketchbook and Solidworks skills.
2. Using Ponoko’s Personal Factory I would design and make my own open source PC case. It’s something I’ve been planning to do for a long while.
Good luck everyone!
July 11th, 2011 at 10:30 pm
Sounds like a great opportunity to learn a bunch of new knowledge to improve our designs.
Jon @ WoodMarvels.com
July 11th, 2011 at 11:07 pm
1. Sketchup is cool and I’d love to learn more.
2. So that I can make a better hexapod robot.
July 12th, 2011 at 5:10 pm
I would love to learn photoshop, 3D and Design stuff, practice coral draw, learn to use Auto CAD and Adobe. I am just starting digital textile designing and i have alot to learn to be successful. Thanks.
July 12th, 2011 at 5:14 pm
Although the PONOKO factory is new to me, I am ready for anything that is going to teach me. Lynda.com is also God sent, I came across it an hour ago. Wow!
July 12th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
I would love to learn Rhino more to model and build an equatorial platform for my homemade telescope so I could track the stars and do astrophotography!
July 12th, 2011 at 6:22 pm
1. I would love to learn any of the 3D software tools (3DS Max). I’m a “print” graphic designer and have been looking to branch out a little bit.
2. With the new skills I would like to make a large scale gallery installation that focuses on these personal-factory production techniques.
July 12th, 2011 at 6:43 pm
I would learn everything I could about AutoCAD, and use it do design my prototype wearable computer and parts for my multitouch table!
July 13th, 2011 at 1:52 am
I first started teaching myself vector so I could create items with ponoko, I would love this opportunity to take an actual course in Illustrator! I’d be able to make more complex shapes, without so much trial and error!
July 13th, 2011 at 4:18 am
1. I would love to learn how to use Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and 3D max.
2. I would use the 3D max software to design the super sports-electronics product I have been working on for a while.
July 13th, 2011 at 5:16 am
I would love to look at some AutoDesk software. I would use that knowledge to finally get cracking on some enclosure designs for all those little projects I got. Plus I’d like to start creating models for game design.
July 13th, 2011 at 6:43 am
So important, it went to my Blog:
http://faz-voce-mesmo.blogspot.com/2011/07/mais-coisas-boas.html
July 13th, 2011 at 7:54 am
1.I’d love to learn some 3D skills so I’d do google SketchUp and also Illustrator CS5 as I know there’s so much more to it than I am currently using.
2.With my new 3D skills I’d combine 3D printing with laser cutting and engraving to make automata models with gears and cams.
July 13th, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Since I’m going into my second year of architecture graduate school, I really need to become an expert with AutoCAD and whatever rendering software is featured on Lynda. After this, I would love to 3D print some of my studio models at Ponoko.
July 13th, 2011 at 5:36 pm
It would be really nice to get some extra knowledge of how to make the most of my Photoshop. You need all the tips and tricks to make a perfect textures for a perfect 3d model!
July 14th, 2011 at 10:44 am
I would learn Google Sketchup 8 in order to make some 3d printed docks for my phone. http://www.lynda.com/Google-SketchUp-8-tutorials/Essential-Training/77962-2.html
July 14th, 2011 at 4:33 pm
1. I’m interested in Lynda.com’s Illustrator and Photoshop tutorials.
2. I want to make 3d masks of faces, to use in molds for hypertufa planters.
July 16th, 2011 at 10:19 pm
1. I would learn Adobe Illustrator, since my graphic design college education seems slightly deficient in that area.
2. I would use it for ponoko designing, as well as web design.
July 17th, 2011 at 5:15 pm
1. I would most want to learn CAD or AutoDesk. 3D modeling is a skill that would really benefit me.
2. I would use it to make 3D mock ups of my very own furniture and jewelry designs. Not yet seen on the Ponoko site.
July 19th, 2011 at 1:28 pm
I’ve always wanted to combine an arduino board with a custom-designed-but-common household item fabricated with the personal factory. This in the vein of ‘making things talk’, i.e. using sensors and web-based personal data to e.g. put up social feeds on a desktop lamp when it is turned on
I’d love to learn both Sketchup and Illustrator, with Lydia’s help.
July 21st, 2011 at 12:14 pm
1) I would love to learn AutoCAD and 3D Max.
2) I have some cool furniture and light fixture ideas that I can’t wait to make with Ponoko. Heck, just sculpture would be great.
July 26th, 2011 at 9:32 am
AAaawww yeah. 3DS max for sure. I’ve got an idea for a 3D puzzle / toy / display art piece I’d like to use both laser cutting and 3D printing to produce using the personal factory.
July 27th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
i’d like to learn maya, autocad and sketchup… and i would used that new knowledge to design all the product ideas in my head that have to be created in 3D! it’d be nice to finally make those concepts become reality! thanks ponoko
July 27th, 2011 at 4:38 pm
I like flash builder, autocad and photoshop classes.
I’d like to design a cnc base paper cutter
July 27th, 2011 at 4:51 pm
The software that I would be most interested in learning would be Solidworks, although I would also like to brush op on Maya, Photoshop, and Sketchup.
With my new knowledge, i would hope to design a backpack case to hold all the parts to a t-shirt launching railgun. And, of course, it’d be cool to make laser-cut parts for a CNC machine, as well.
July 27th, 2011 at 5:41 pm
I’ve been meaning to learn Rhino for a while. I have some wrist cuff designs that would be pretty appropriate for practicing with it.
July 28th, 2011 at 7:25 am
-I’m interested in seeing the Blender videos, since it’s open-source and has other uses as well.
-I’d like to make the housing for an LED clock.
July 28th, 2011 at 8:35 pm
I would be excited to learn to design 3D characters in Rhino, ZBrush, and Maya from lynda.com and have them 3D printed from Ponoko!
July 29th, 2011 at 9:57 am
any thing with 3d modeling so I can make custom enclosures for the projects I make
July 29th, 2011 at 11:08 am
1. I’m most excited to improve my skills with Google SketchUp at lynda.com and also learn about some other 3D software like Blender & Poser. I’d also like to improve my 2D vector skills in Adobe Illustrator.
2. What would I make with Personal Factory using my new software skills? I have a great concept for a laptop stand and would also like to attempt some 3D sliceform sculptures. I also want to design some small desktop speaker cabinets, perhaps using Ponoko’s new CNC milling option in MDF or plywood.
July 30th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
I’d like to learn Rhino better at lynda.com, and have some jewelry, lighting and other housewares in mind to design with Personal Factory