The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
Naughty Secretary Club: The Working Girl’s Guide to Handmade Jewelry by Jennifer Perkins Buy the Book ($11.55) Naughty Secretary Club Stitch Austin Craft Mafia Jennifer Perkins‘ jewelry company Naughty Secretary Club is a major fixture of the indie craft scene and it’s easy to see why. Her hyper-colorful, supremely kitschy creations are so unmistakably hers, […]
I recently did an email interview with blacksmith Louie Raffloer of Seattle’s Black Dog Forge; I also visited the forge to see a demonstration of his induction forge. The shop is an amazing place, with a huge assortment of equipment, art, anvils, and racks bristling with tools – a collection that’s obviously taken years to […]
If you’re interested in building an analog synthesizer then the VCO (voltage controlled oscillator) circuit is the best place to start. Oscillators form the core of the instrument, generating basic waveforms which are then shaped and shifted by accompanying components like LFOs, VCAs, and filters and then delivered to our ears as tasty electronic audio […]
Robotsrule has a giant review of the new Femisapien robot, for $99 it’s look worth it for the parts, sensors and learning interface alone… For me the posing interface is the most powerful and fun method of playing with Femisapien. As you can see in the accompanying video review, you can create a Femisapien dance […]
Apartment Therapy Re-Nest helps you recycle your socks and weave them into a potholder.
Check out this very detailed instructable by user MaggieJs on setting a stone in a ring with a bezel.
Our pals at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories celebrated the two year anniversary of their site on Saturday and we missed it! Hope they saved us some fractal cookies or fabbed candy. It’s hard to believe the site’s only be around for two years. They’ve done so many amazing, memetically viral, projects, what with the Joule […]
