7 CNC Fixturing Tips for a Small Shop
If you have small delicate material or large objects without flat surfaces, you can still get a good grip for your CNC with the right fixturing.
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CNC Your Own Star Wars AT-AT
The AT-ATrinket is a functional and decorative Star Wars AT-AT-shaped box cut from MDF using a CNC router.
Your School Could Win a CNC Carving Machine from Inventables
Last year, Inventables held a contest to give a CNC carving machine to a public makerspace in every state in The United States of America. At National Maker Faire, Inventables CEO Zach Kaplan announced that they will be at it again. This year, instead of awarding the machines to makerspaces, Inventables will be giving them to schools […]
Skill Builder: 10 Questions to Ask Before Renting Time on a CNC Mill
If you’re like most of us, you probably don’t own an expensive CNC mill in your garage. In many parts of the country, one isn’t that far away. To use one, you’re likely going to have to rent time on it. Make every minute of time in front of the machine count by preparing in advance […]
Othermill Manufacturing Stays Close to Home
It takes a village to make the Othermill desktop CNC mill, but despite current trends offshore, that village is based in the San Francisco Bay Area instead of Chinese manufacturing hotbed Shenzhen.
Fun Things to CNC: Disco Ball, Hummingbird, and Millennium Falcon
Chocolate Millennium Falcons? Yes please. We asked our friends at Other Machine Co. for fun projects they like to make with their new Othermill, a desktop CNC mill for cutting circuit boards and other small projects. Here’s what they’re making lately in their shop in San Francisco. Chocolate Millennium Falcon By Ed Lewis Chocolate may not […]
The Skinny on End Mills
Interested in CNC routing but clueless about tooling? Can’t tell an end mill from a drill bit? Don’t be intimidated by CNC routing. Take the first step into machining by gaining a solid understanding of subtractive tooling basics.
