“All About Welding Plastics”
Learn plastic welding through this black-and-white Seelye Model 63 Plastic Welder manual.
Workshop
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
Wood Bikes: Art You Can Ride
Bill Patchett and Bill Holloway create complete bike frames out of wood, following the entire process from felling a tree in the urban forest, to shaping and finishing it. This creative example of reuse becomes a piece of rolling art at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Subscribe to the Maker Faire Podcast in iTunes, download […]
Taiko Drums: John O’Halloran (video)
John O’Halloran brought an array of Taiko drums to Maker Faire bay Area 2011, upon which music was played for the duration of the event. Each drum is built from reclaimed wine barrels and each Taiko drumming student is invited to participate in the construction process of their drums before playing them.
Cache of old Silkscreens Inform Designs of Cyberoptix TieLab
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Bethany Shorb of Cyberoptix TieLab recently acquired a stash of old used silkscreens to be reclaimed and reused to print her tie designs. But a closer inspection revealed something too interesting to wash out, and these industrial cast-offs generate some truly unique ties.
Locksport Talk at Defcon 19
Schuyler Towne gives a great presentation on non destructive entry. As a bonus, there’s an intro by Jason Scott of Textfiles.com.
Zero to Make: Crash Course in Welding
There’s something about the process of joining two pieces of metal together that captures people’s excitement and curiosity. Outside of a romantic idea of welding masks, torches, and flying sparks, I had no idea what I was getting into. Now that I’ve taken a few classes, I’ve learned enough to distinguish the different types of welds, their uses, and the fact that I have a lot of practice in store before my welds are worth anything.
Introducing Plastics Month
The very word means capable of being shaped, molded. Plastic is a cheap, durable, plentiful, extremely adaptable, and variable material that can be put to seemingly endless uses, from furnishings, building materials, and machine parts, to tools, weapons, vehicles, to now just about anything that can be extruded from a 3D printing head. The downside of its cheapness and ubiquity (not to mention the polluting nature of its manufacture) is that it leads to a profusion of waste material.