A while ago MAKE did a post on A Beginning Engineer’s Checklist from the PIClist site. And while I love these kind of lists, it left me – as a...
Posted by Emeka Okafor | Wednesday March 30th, 2011 10:30 AM
Categories: Workshop | 41 Comments
Alan Federman built our Da Vinci Reciprocating Gear project in MAKE Volume 24 (video above). He has a number of other cool working Da Vinci models, built in wood, on...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Tuesday March 29th, 2011 11:30 AM
Categories: Workshop | 2 Comments
On the latest Make: Live, we had Dustyn Roberts, our mechanics mentor for the month, give us a tour of her Wind Lantern project, from her book Making Things Move....
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Friday March 25th, 2011 4:00 PM
Categories: Workshop | 11 Comments
In response to my post yesterday on tap and die, one of our fave MAKE contributors, Ross Hershberger, posted a set of tips we thought should have its own post....
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday March 23rd, 2011 3:00 PM
Categories: Tools, Workshop | 5 Comments
Taps and dies are the two tools you use for cutting threads into material around a hole (tap) and for cutting threads into a rod (die) for mating with that...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Tuesday March 22nd, 2011 9:30 PM
Categories: Tools, Workshop | 4 Comments
We have another installment from Dustyn Roberts’ wonderful book, Making Things Move. In the last chapter, we covered “Introduction to Mechanisms and Machines.” Today, we look at motors and motion...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Tuesday March 22nd, 2011 5:30 PM
Back in January, John Baichtal wrote about the Bolt Depot’s downloadable PDF posters [PDF, 520K] of common (and not so common) screws, bolts, washers, nuts, and other fasteners. But we...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday March 16th, 2011 9:30 PM
Categories: Tools, Workshop | 8 Comments
The awesome automata artist Dug North does a quarterly column, “Dug’s Automata Tips, Techniques and Tricks,” on the Cabaret Mechanical Theater website. His latest installment outlines two different methods for...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday March 16th, 2011 3:30 PM
This month, for our Mechanics Skill Set, we’re happy to have our friend Dustyn Roberts joining us again to help out with the theme. We’ll be excerpting from Dustyn’s book,...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Tuesday March 8th, 2011 4:00 PM
Categories: Education, Workshop | No Comments
This month, we’re thrilled to announce our Mechanics Skill Set. Over the course of March, we’ll explore the wonderful world of simple machines, mechanical forces, motors and motion. We’ll have...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Friday March 4th, 2011 4:00 PM
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For our Woodworking Skill Set theme, we asked MAKE contributor Len Cullum to contribute some pieces on understanding basic tools and techniques. Here, he explains power tools common in woodworking....
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Tuesday February 22nd, 2011 2:00 PM
Categories: Tools, Woodworking, Workshop | No Comments
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