Turn Your Dremel Tool into a Plastic Welder!
Slot some plastic filament into a Dremel rotary tool and turn it into a plastic welder!
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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 1′×2′ 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 Team’s Last Project Failed?
A group of HAXLR8R graduates say that their modular electric vehicle development kit, FlexPV, will be able to turn almost anything into a motor vehicle. The Kickstarter campaign for FlexPV is replete with crisp graphics and slickly produced videos that show users clamping motor, battery, and control modules to a 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, Make:‘s Matt Stultz wrote about the new collaboration between MakerBot’s design community, Thingiverse, and the Amsterdam-based 3D Hubs. Eventually, the collaboration could bring together Thingiverse’s 700,000 designs with 3D Hubs’ 15,000 printer locations — though for now, the feature is available only for parts developed by a handful of pre-selected designers. In March, I used 3D Hubs to print a part of my own, […]
Make a Combination Blackboard/Bulletin Board
Make a simple blackboard/bulletin board that cleverly uses a yardstick to divide the two. It’s quick, easy, and makes a great gift too! Another great project from Make: contributor and toy inventor Bob Knetzger.