CNC Machining

Other Machine Co Rebrands as Bantam Tools

Other Machine Co Rebrands as Bantam Tools

By Jon Christian

Jon Christian

Jon Christian is the co-editor of the Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection between makers and business. He's also written for the Boston Globe, WIRED and The Atlantic.

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Other Machine Co., the desktop CNC maker that arguably popularized desktop cutting systems, will continue under the new name of Bantam Tools and do more to court teachers and professional designers, according to CEO Danielle Applestone.

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These Tiny Drawbots Put Unique Doodles on Coasters

These Tiny Drawbots Put Unique Doodles on Coasters

By Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy is an engineer with 10 years experience at his full-time profession, and has a BSME from Clemson University. Outside of work he’s an avid maker and experimenter, building anything that comes into his mind!

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In order to produce something interesting to bring to a monthly hardware meetup, Barton Dring created custom laser coaster engraver/cutters.

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Open World: Touring London’s Biggest Workshops

Open World: Touring London’s Biggest Workshops

Liam Grace-Flood

By Liam Grace-Flood

Liam Grace-Flood

An artist, engineer, and researcher, Liam makes all kinds of things, including public policy, fine art, electric motorcycles, and computational models. His passion for making is rivaled only by his dedication to ensuring other people have the resources they need to make, too. In that vein, as a 2017 Watson Fellow he's exploring how open workshops democratize and decentralize education, innovation, and industry to make better things, people, and communities.

You can find him at his website or on instagram

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Liam Grace-Flood begins his journey through London by visiting the city’s two largest makerspaces: Building BloQ and London Hackerspace.

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Keep Your Project Secure with These CNC Workholding Techniques

Keep Your Project Secure with These CNC Workholding Techniques

Tim Deagan

By Tim Deagan

Tim Deagan

Tim Deagan (@TimDeagan) likes to make things. He casts, prints, screens, welds, brazes, bends, screws, glues, nails, and dreams in his Austin, Texas, shop. He's spent decades gathering tools based on the idea that one day he will come up with a project that has a special use for each and every one of them.

Tim likes to learn and try new things. A career troubleshooter, he designs, writes, and debugs code to pay the bills. He has worked as a stagehand, meat cutter, speechwriter, programmer, sales associate at Radio Shack, VJ, sandwich maker, computer tech support specialist, car washer, desk clerk, DBA, virtual CIO, and technical writer. He's run archeology field labs, darkrooms, produce teams, video stores, ice cream shops, consulting teams, developers, and QA teams. He's written for Make: magazine, Nuts & Volts, Lotus Notes Advisor and Databased Advisor.

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If you’re going to be machining, you’ll need to hold down your material. These techniques and tricks will keep your project secure while the job gets done.

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