Tips of the Week: Binder Clip Hacks, Saw Tips, Engineering Basics, and Using a Laptop as a Light Box
Another week, another spankin-good round up of indispensable shop tips, tricks, and hacks.
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How to Upgrade Your 3D Printer With a Laser Engraver
Upgrading your 3D printer is a fantastic way to improve performance and print quality, as well as learn how the machine works. Often the upgrades are simple things to make it run quieter, get better cooling, control the environment through an enclosure, detect filament jams, and other things of that nature. This upgrade however adds […]
5 Cool DIY Projects to Make for Holiday Presents
Here are some suggestions for high-impact homemade gifts that won’t cost you too dearly in time or money.
From Raspberry Pi to Home Brewing, Here Are 19 Projects To Make From Our Gift Guide
Gift guides are great, nearly everybody loves them. They may be one of the few advertisements that people are happy to see, since they can genuinely help you decide on a fun gift for a loved one. I know I use them pretty extensively for my shopping. We came up with an idea to make […]
Particle Argon
There’s more and more boards out there every day offering a controller, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. If that was all the Argon was, we might be praising it for its ease of use. It’s a full featured board, with documentation that’s lighthearted and downright pleasant to study. The attention to detail in making this a board […]
Particle Xenon
Have a project that calls for not just one gizmo, but a swarm? Particle.io made the Xenon to be the brains of each node of that swarm. It’s the building block for their push to make building mesh networks easy, if not downright fun. The big idea of a mesh network is that you want […]
DJI’s Tiny Osmo Pocket Camera Looks Good For Stablized Project Documenting
A few years ago, the only options for camera stabilizers were awkward rigs that required carefully balanced passive gimbals, or clunky, large weights strapped to the bottom of a camera to add shake-reducing mass. As the drone industry has pushed micro-gimbal technology forward, it’s fascinating to see it become implemented in tinier and cheaper platforms. […]
