How-To: Build a Wooden Workbench
Need a welcoming work surface of your own? Build a DIY wooden workbench that you’ll use for years to come!
Workshop
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
Kokopelli Quickstart: Machining Parametric Living Hinges
The kokopelli living hinge example has built-in sliders that make it simple to create your own bespoke flexibles from rigid materials using digital fabrication tools.
Turn Codes into Things: Kokopelli and Antimony
Kokopelli and Antimony are parametric, comparative, implicit frameworks for computer-aided design. Currently, kokopelli is suitable for 2D and 3D modeling and PCB design, and Antimony, intended to be kokopelli’s spiritual successor, is experimental and under active development.
Fab Labs @ 10
Fab Labs are a global community of local workshops that enable invention by providing access to tools and for digital fabrication education and enrichment, which has grown to over 250 labs worldwide in ten years.
Joe Olson’s DIY-Enabled Wheelchair
Joe Olson is disabled but he’s also a maker with DIYability, a term used by John Schimmel on a website of that name for do-it-yourself “assistive technology.” I met Joe at the DC Mini Maker Faire on June 8. He has been in a wheelchair since 1999 when, just out of high school, he broke […]
SketchUp : Word processing for 3D printer
That’s not the name of a new tomato sauce. SketchUp is the MS Word-like editor of the 3D world. Modeling a fully customized lamp without special skills, in less than 5 minutes ? This is possible, thanks to SketchUp. Denis and is team from Adebeo, demonstrated how they do it on the SketchUp Heroes stage […]
18th Century Craftman’s Shop Discovered
I don’t know about you, but I am utterly fascinated by the past. Old, run-down buildings, vintage clothing, antiques, you name it – I get googly-eyed over it. I love pondering what the people were like who lived in the houses before, or who wore those clothes? Walked those halls? Played that piano? So when […]