The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
Matthias Wandel’s Woodgears.ca may be my favorite personal maker website. It’s clean, well organized, packed with resources, and every click brings new inspiration. I can get stuck there for hours, so be careful when you click through. This time it’s Matthias’s homemade 3D pantograph carving machine / pattern duplicator that I’m fixated on.
French artist René Zaki shot this great time-lapse video showing the process of creating a bronze bust from a lump of clay to the finishing touches. The actual build time is shorted from 4 days to 10 minutes!
Though heavy for its class, this DIY aluminum longboard deck design from Redditor davvik gets high marks for its machine aesthetics and its accessible construction method. The truck mounting plates are simple millings, but the rest of it is stock aluminum strip and hardware-store parts.
Lior Elazary’s Mechanical CPU Clock intrigues me — it’s a clock that simulates the way a CPU works: For a CPU to do any meaningful work, it needs to be told what to do. This comes in the form of instructions. For this wall clock I will only concentrate on the hours to make things […]
If you’re gearing up for a 3D printer, home brew CNC machine, camera rig, robotics, or automation project and are looking for a mini t-slot solution that uses common off-the-shelf fasteners, then check out OpenBeam.
Michael Castor compares the Garrett Wade Yankee push drill against an original Stanley version in this week’s Toolsday column. See how it stacks up against a tried and true classic.
Instructables superstar Ray Alderman guest-stars on Make: Projects with this quick, cool, easy method for casting a custom concrete candleholder using a cookie-cutter as a mold. Thanks so much, Ray!
