The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
Dan writes – An endoscope is a thin viewing device, suitable for being poked into places where the human eye cannot, and possibly should not, otherwise see. Since it’s likely to be dark… in there, endoscopes usually have some sort of illumination device built in. The more sophisticated kinds of endoscope shoot light out of […]
PC World has a review of a new SketchUp book, SketchUp is a free and popular 3D tool for designing objects, buildings and more… Phil writes – Remember when your high school English teacher explained that every word in the sentences you write needs to carry some meaning? While the rest of us missed that […]
We Make Money Not Art has a review our our new book Making Things Talk! – Link & more @ the Maker Store. Programming microcontrollers used to require an expensive development environment costing thousands of dollars and requiring professional electrical engineering expertise. But recent innovations, such as open-source physical computing platforms with simple i/o boards […]
How we built a 3D freeform sugar printer in our kitchen.
The first in a three-part series about building a workshop from the ground up.
Belgrade’s gypsy houseboats are the dwellings of the future.
Pennsylvania artist Lee Stoetzel recreates iconic products entirely out of wood, with a little steel and Bondo for support.
