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The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.

Hand Engraving With Clickspring

Hand Engraving With Clickspring

I personally find videos of precise hand skills to be mesmerizing. I find myself lost in the process as tiny details emerge and I can only imagine the skill it takes to get to the final product. Clickspring’s videos fill that craving of mine very consistently (his soothing narration doesn’t hurt either). This video, I […]

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Rose Hedges

What Nurses Make in a Hospital Makerspace

“I knew nurses were making because I did it myself” – Rose Hedges Rose Hedges of UnityPoint Health in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Anna Young of Maker Health join me to talk about how a makerspace on the first floor of a hospital has created opportunities for nurses and other medical staff to prototype solutions […]

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Watch A Hobby CNC Guru Play With A 0,000 Machine

Watch A Hobby CNC Guru Play With A $100,000 Machine

Winston Moy may not be your average hobby cnc user. His methodical and scientific approach are thorough and intelligent. He really pushes the hobby CNC machines he has access to, to their limits for finish and clean cuts – unlike me, who just smashes stuff out no matter how ugly because math is tedious. Winston […]

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Make That Laser Cutter Blaze: Upgrade a K40

Make That Laser Cutter Blaze: Upgrade a K40

Digital fabrication tools can run from hundreds to many tens of thousands of dollars. For makers interested in a really useful tool at a relatively low initial cost with tremendous upgrade potential, the generic “K40” type 40W CO2 laser platform is hard to beat. Significantly more powerful than diode lasers, K40 lasers can cut wood, leather, […]

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Surreal Sculptures Branching Through The Natural and Modern World

Surreal Sculptures Branching Through The Natural and Modern World

Henrique Oliveira never knows exactly how his sprawling sculptures will take shape, which is, perhaps, a contributing factor to their organic look and feel, bridging the natural world with the modern, resulting in the surreal exhibitions and installations he’s been creating around the world for over a decade. “It was not something planned, like had an […]

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Tim Keller at Inventopia

Santa Needs Maker Microfactories

A conversation with Tim Keller of Inventopia in Davis, CA Podcast Video Transcript You can imagine how it is at the North Pole this time of year. The elves are overworked and they’re running behind. Getting all the required materials to the North Pole is really hard with the supply chain problems. And then Santa […]

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Watch The Ever So Amusing Secret Santa of Makers On Youtube

Watch The Ever So Amusing Secret Santa of Makers On Youtube

For the past few years the holiday season has been made thoroughly amusing by a series of collaborations put on by the youtube channel Kids Invent Stuff. They reach out to these channels and organize a secret santa exchange where you have to make the gift you’re sending to another maker on youtube. This year, […]

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