Turn Your Dremel Tool into a Plastic Welder!
Slot some plastic filament into a Dremel rotary tool and turn it into a plastic welder!
Workshop
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
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 […]
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, […]
How a Pro-Grade 3D Printer Helped Evolve My Prop Design Business
What would you do with a professional 3D printer?
Spanish Company Scans and 3D Prints Every Resident of Village
A Spanish 3D printing firm demonstrated a new scanner by creating 3D scans of all 318 residents of Torrequebradilla, a small village in southern Spain, in just one day. The event was part of a nationwide promotional tour organized by Grupo Sicnova to advertise the scanning speed of the Clonescan 3D, a seven-foot scanning apparatus, […]
Why I’m the Worst Maker In The Room, and Why That’s OK
Too much planning leaves too little time for making.
Sew Kitschy, Sew Cool: How to Cross-Stitch Furniture
Feeling crafty? Learn how to cross-stitch furniture and give your dressers, drawers, tables, or chairs a creative upgrade that’ll make even older pieces look fresh and new! Want to do something really fancy to your furniture? Gather your tapestry yarns and find the drill bits, this DIY’s just for you. If you’ve got wood or […]