Digital Meets Physical will bring makers, software hackers, and DIY geeks together for two days of outrageous fun, using the Netduino platform and other fun toys to build our brains out. We’ll be hacking at the AS220 Labs, a hackerspace where tools, technology and inspiration abound. With no less than 10 top quality watering holes within spitting distance, power breaks and refueling will be top notch.
Three-jaw chucks, of the same general type used to hold bits in most power drills, are also common equipment on metalworking lathes. Though it is not necessarily so, three-jaw chucks are so commonly of the self-centering variety, in which the jaws are not independently adjustable, that “self-centering” is generally assumed from the term “three-jaw chuck.” But…
Use this simple technique to paint letters like a pro.
David Bourell of UT Texas describes how laser sintering works. This method of 3D printing uses a laser that fuses plastic powder, building up layer by layer somewhat same way as filament-based 3D printers do. [Via @cenmag]
Our favorite cross-stitching couple, Steotch, is back with a rad new sampler that will have sci-fi fans all kinds of giddy. Behold, the BSG sampler! [via @bonniegrrl]
We’ve featured Ephrem’s Bottle Cutter in MAKE:Vol 28, Matt Richardson’s Video (shown below) and in Make:Projects, so it’s about time we made it available in the Maker Shed! This deluxe kit includes the bottle cutting jig, carbide polishing compound, a candle, instructions, and a special adapter to allow cutting on the neck of the bottle. Perfect making everything from drinking vessels to bottleneck guitar slides.
My friend Jeff Wilson alerted me to this awesomely large Lomo-styled photo booth his colleague Matt Frank built for his wedding. The camera-shaped enclosure houses a Mac running PhotoBooth, a monitor for instant feedback, halogen lighting, and a hacked Easy button sending serial commands (via Arduino) to the computer. He has an excellent how-to here […]
