Bart Dring’s open source laser cutter now prints in plastic thanks to a RepRap extruder. He’s also working on a knife cutter. Interested in participating? PDF/DXF files are on the project page or Bart’s also selling starter kits.
MAKE subscriber Jeff from Kitchener, ON, wrote in with this Instructable for a cool ‘woodpunk’ desk lamp with a LED light. I’m very proud of my latest creation, the Woodpunk LED Desk Lamp. It’s made mostly of 1/4″ and 1/2″ plywood, hand-cut on a scroll saw. The cord, socket and springs were recycled from thrift […]
In honor of Citizen Science month, here are some science-related projects available on the site. If you haven’t registered yet, done a project, or posted one, here’s how to get started. Also, don’t forget that Evernote now offers a Make: Projects Notebook in their “Trunk” area, so you can add (select) Make: Projects to your […]
Polish AFOL Paul “Sarial” Kmiec (who built this neat robot arm) has created a Lego gear ratio calculator that lets you create complicated sets of gears and gives you speed, torque and ratios. Another tool lets you position two axles, then tells you what gears will work with that configuration. Lastly, you can choose which […]
The Brutstruder appears to be a powerful plastic extruder, which is the part of a 3d printer that pushes out hot plastic in a thin line.
Here’s a little Friday inspiration from paper artist Nami Yamamoto, who creates colorful silhouettes inspired from the various natural and man-made objects she collects. These items of interest are then arranged in a specimen-like case to wondrous effect.
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, photo and build by user JustJon. It uses an Arduino + adafruit Wave Shield to play the Doctor Who theme and flash the siren light. There’s more info, plus video, at JustJon’s personal site.
