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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.

Tips of the Week: Adjusting Nail Gun Pressure on the Fly, Clear Storage, Heat-Forming PVC

This week’s top tips on using a nail gun, organizing your supplies, staying inspired, sewing machine troubleshooting, and more.

Vintage tech offers great opportunities to go back to the basics of teaching innovation and invention through project-based learning.

Give the gift of mechanical persuasion to a friend with a homemade shop mallet.

MakeItGo is a collaborative game that brings different makerspaces together to create an iterative project.

Organizing and carrying your tools and materials, drawing quick curves, and bit sharpening.

Makers explore and experiment; they create and innovate. Many projects come from a personal interest or passion, but become something else.

Identifying your fasteners, making patterns with gaffer’s tape, burning marks in wood, and more on zip tie cutting.