How to Make an Ikea Plate Bird Feeder
Make an easy bird feeder out of Ikea bamboo plates. Perfect for sprucing up your garden while feeding our feathered friends.
Workshop
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
Geek Chic: Design-it-yourself shoes
Online service Zazzle basically prints on anything. Want a one-off t-shirt or mug? They got it. It’s somewhat like Ponoko or Shapeways, you either generate your own design or choose from one of theirs, and then add-to-cart and the item is manufactured and gets mailed to you. Which is not necessarily all that interesting — […]
Featured Maker: Shannon Conrad
If you follow CRAFT, as well, you may have seen Rachel’s post back in January about Oregon jeweler Shannon Conrad’s interlocking Lego rings. Shown above is the result of Shannon’s very first experiment with casting from Lego elements, a one-off solid silver Imperial Stormtrooper minifig she made for her 11-year-old son. It weighs 1.5 oz (44g). I know Lego fanboys who happily would trade their own teeth for one of those.
DIYLILCNC: A DIY Dremel CNC
The DIYLILCNC project is a set of plans for an inexpensive, fully functional 3-axis CNC mill that can be built by an individual with basic shop skills and tool access. CNC devices are used to fabricate physical objects with a high degree of precision. Some CNC devices, including the DIYLILCNC, feature a gantry-mounted cutting tool […]
How to Hack a Syringe into a Glue Gun to Make an Applicator
Combine a disposable syringe and a cheap hot glue gun into a pistol-applicator for solder flux paste.
Flashback: $30 Micro Forge
Our Make: Online second-quarter theme of “Make: Time and Space” got me thinking about all of the workshop-related articles that have graced the pages of MAKE magazine. One of my favorites has to be Seattle-based master woodworker Len Cullum‘s “$30 Micro Forge” from MAKE Volume 18. When he found himself needing 500 old-style Japanese nails, […]
Tedd McDonah’s Recyclures
Metalsmith Tedd McDonah makes these gorgeous fishing lures from recycled cans. He calls them “Recyclures.”