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The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.

Craft Memo review

Crafter Jess Clement fell in love with craftmemo.com, a new site that is a craft record keeping and management tool for projects. She loves it so much, she even wrote up a review for us and shows us how to use the new Craft Memo site as place to inventory all your projects and supplies. […]

The ROBOTS are coming! – 1953

The ROBOTS are coming! – 1953

Interesting look back, forward – at robotics and computers from Mechanix Illustrated – 1953 (self-driving cars, robot elephants, prime number crunching computers, automatic factories, automatic sewing machines, self replicating Von Neumann machines) – “Our civilization is being invaded by a horde of mechanical men who are determined to change our way of life. But there’s […]

Tringo – quick review

Tringo – quick review

Last year we posted about virtual world resident Kermitt Quick and a game he made game called “Tringo” in Second Life (an online multiplayer world) – Tringo is like Bingo and Tetris all in one. In the virtual world it was a huge hit, and the game was licensed by a gameboy game publisher, from […]

Xyron Design Runner review

Xyron Design Runner review

Wan has a review of this little printer that prints as you move it over things, it wants to be hacked, not sure if it prints on people – “Xyron Design Runner lets you print ANYWHERE…check out the FirstLook, FirstUse, and the video. The only thing we need is for them to upgrade the reader […]