How-To: Wooden Belt Buckle
Transform interesting wood scraps into a beautiful one-of-a-kind accessory with this wooden belt buckle tutorial!
Workshop
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
Building Up to Maker Faire, Shawn Thorsson Brings ED-209 to Life: Part 4 — Vacforming
The Robocop baddie gets its shell.
Mars Rover Art Car: Bringing Space to the Playa
How a Burning Man crew brought space to the Playa.
How-To: Custom Pipe Table
Make the most of your work space by making a customized table, like this DIY table made from pipes cut to size at a plumbing supply shop by Cartolina.
Elisa Strozyk’s Wooden Textiles
Artist Elisa Strozyk plays with our familiarity with materials in these extraordinary works called “Wooden Textiles.”
Hacking a Vintage Belt Sander
Swapping out the motor of an old belt sander to create a precision finish sander.
Toward Thingiverse.gov?
Unrestricted 3D scans from Uncle Sam. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has released a memorandum directing federal agencies to develop a plan in the next six months to make their scientific collections publicly available. It’s the first step towards creating a central repository of all of the Government’s 3D scans. And the Government has a lot of things to be scanned.