Crazy ridiculous safety saw can detect fingers and shut off
I’m in awe of this SawStop safety saw.
Workshop
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
Make a desktop catapult
Let’s face it, nobody needs a medieval siege weapon on their desk. Or do they? I recently decided that the lack of catapults in our brainstorming sessions at work was negatively impacting our ability to be creative. So I decided to remedy this. My friend Bill Gurstelle is the dean of siege weapons, so I […]
Machine Shop Tips video series
Our pal Jeri Ellsworth turned us on to this awesome series of machine shop vids, done by “tubalcain” (aka mrpete222), a retired shop teacher from Illinois. It does my heart good to think of someone with this kind of technical expertise and years of practical wisdom, who’s already “retired,” creating such great educational videos and […]
Make a Soda Bottle Bike Exhaust
My son has this totally awesome “exhaust” pipe on his bike that I covet. It’s really a resonator for the classic baseball-card-in-the-spokes trick. It makes a terrific racket, and gets people to move out of the way without necessitating a honk on your horn. I decided to build my own, using a recycled beverage bottle. Armed with a Dremel Rotary Tool, a bottle of energy drink, and a depleted gift card, I set out to make my own soda bottle bike exhaust.
Rebar X-mas tree
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, from user gunterhausfrau.
Craftsman and MAKE build the Ultimate Santa’s Sleigh
Santa’s helpers (students from UC Woodlawn Charter Schools) solder resistors to Christmas LEDs This holiday season, MAKE has teamed up with Craftsman, Chicago’s Butler Street Foundry and hackerspace Pumping Station One to create a number of techie projects as part of the Craftsman Experience store. The main collaboration is an Ultimate Santa’s Sleigh, complete with […]
Traditional Arts and Crafts From Around the World
Dr. Carol Ventura, professor of art at Tennessee Technological University, maintains a website that focuses on her research of traditional arts and crafts in The Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. She shares an extensive collection of crafts, each with its own set of process shots of the skilled craftspeople at work, with descriptions of each […]