Turn Your Dremel Tool into a Plastic Welder!
Slot some plastic filament into a Dremel rotary tool and turn it into a plastic welder!
Year: 2015
DIY Pandora Style Polymer Clay Beads
Save some money my making your own Pandora style charms from polymer clay!
Fab Academy Students Challenged to Make Something BIG
The Fab Academy program is a distributed educational model providing advanced digital fabrication instruction for students through a unique, hands-on curriculum and access to technological tools and resources. In this series, Erin, aka RobotGrrl is going to be sharing her experiences with the program as she progresses through the courses. The assignment this week at […]
This R/C Plane Built from a Weed Whacker Actually Flies
In the dark of night, one of the builders at UsaRCJets took the engine from a dead weed eater, parts from an old R/C banana boat plane, a 1โฒร2โฒ board and cobbled them together into this monstrous wacky hack. With no plans and only some beers to guide him, Billy D set to work making […]
Should You Back A Kickstarter If the Teamโs Last Project Failed?
A group ofย HAXLR8R graduates say that their modularย electric vehicle development kit,ย FlexPV, will be able to turn almost anythingย into a motor vehicle. The Kickstarter campaign for FlexPVย is replete with crisp graphics and slickly produced videos that show users clamping motor, battery, and control modules to aย scooter, a bicycle, and even a grocery cart before riding away […]
I Used 3D Hubs to Print a Phone Dock. Here’s What Happened.
Last week,ย Make:‘s Matt Stultzย wrote about the new collaborationย betweenย MakerBot’s design community, Thingiverse, andย the Amsterdam-based 3D Hubs.ย Eventually, the collaboration couldย bring together Thingiverse’s 700,000 designs with 3D Hubs’ 15,000 printer locations โ though for now, the feature is available only forย parts developed by a handful ofย pre-selected designers. In March, Iย usedย 3D Hubs to print a part of my own, […]
Microsoft and Arduino Announce Hardware-Support Collaboration
Microsoft seems to be getting more and more Maker friendly, and today their courtship moves further forward withย the surprise announcement of two new collaborations with microcontroller makers Arduino. Both projects, announced at the Microsoft developer conference Build, involve Windows 10, and both usher in a new level of Microsoft engagement with the Maker Movement. Windows […]
