Make Your Own CNC Wire Bender
How to make your own desktop wire bender.
Workshop
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
Unreasonable Rocketeers
The new space race is maker-made.
The Buckaroo Banzai
Dezso Molnar elevates flying motorcycles from fiction to fact.
2012: 3D Printing’s Big Year
Two thousand and twelve was 3D printing’s breakout year. While still the realm of early adopters, the 3D printing genie is clearly out of the bottle. I checked in with several consumer-class 3D printer companies to see how 2012 went down and to get their thoughts on 2013 and beyond. Everyone I spoke with was extremely bullish about the future of 3D printing and some were already rolling out new models.
Workshop: Shawn Thorsson
Down a dusty road in the eggs-and-butter town of Petaluma, Calif., sits a big, handmade pink Victorian complete with chicken coop, storage containers, vintage cars, and Thorsson’s badass workshop, where fantasy comes to life.
Mad Props
Shawn Thorsson makes toys for people who reject the notion of growing up. If you bump into one of his 8-foot-tall Space Marines, be sure to apologize.
Made on Earth: Tall Drink of Water
Tropism Well is an interactive sculpture that senses when someone is near and bows to pour water into a glass.