Fabricate Your Own Threaded Parts with Taps and Dies
Screws and bolts are simple options for fastening two pieces of material together. How would you go about making your own?
Continue ReadingScrews and bolts are simple options for fastening two pieces of material together. How would you go about making your own?
Continue ReadingInstructables user turkey tek achieved an astounding feat of pie engineering with this 20-sided peacan pie tutorial.
Continue ReadingMany years ago a maker looked at a pile of junk and decided to make a miniature classic car from it.
Continue ReadingSolid-gold DIY from Barcelona’s Abraham Neddermann, AKA “Dicecreator”, known here previously for his junk-built laser die engraver, as well as a bunch of sweet custom dice builds (below).
Continue ReadingFrederick McSwain created DIE, a portrait made of dice in memory of his friend, Tobias Wong, an artist and designer who died last year. Frederick used 13,138 dice, one for each day Tobias lived: The idea of a die itself was appropriate—the randomness of life. It felt like [a medium] he would use. Because [Tobias] […]
Continue ReadingThe last time we covered this neat die reading machine by Steve Hoefer, he had a very nice design that was starting to be able to determine the number of a die placed on it. Well, he swapped out his problematic photoresistor sensors for an infrared emitter/detector-based scheme to produce version 2, which he claims works with almost perfect accuracy.
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