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Your School Could Win a CNC Carving Machine from Inventables

Your School Could Win a CNC Carving Machine from Inventables

By Matt Stultz

Matt Stultz

Matt is a community organizer and founder of 3DPPVD, Ocean State Maker Mill, and HackPittsburgh. He is Make's digital fabrication and reviews editor.

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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 […]

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Skill Builder: 10 Questions to Ask Before Renting Time on a CNC Mill

Skill Builder: 10 Questions to Ask Before Renting Time on a CNC Mill

Eric Schimelpfenig

By Eric Schimelpfenig

Eric Schimelpfenig

Eric Schimelpfenig is a kitchen and bath designer and the founder of SketchThis.net. His passion is taking pencil and paper operations and converting them to the 3D world—he has created 3D content for companies large and small, and continues to turn to Home Depot for his building material needs. Having worked with Google on Sketchup software’s development, Eric is now on a three-year nationwide teaching tour in collaboration with Kitchen & Bath Design News.

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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 […]

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Fun Things to CNC: Disco Ball, Hummingbird, and Millennium Falcon

Fun Things to CNC: Disco Ball, Hummingbird, and Millennium Falcon

Dan Royer

By Dan Royer

Dan Royer

With your help, Dan Royer is going to put construction robots on the moon. Find out more on his website .

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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 […]

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The Skinny on End Mills

The Skinny on End Mills

By Tyler Worman

Tyler Worman

I'm a maker living in Ann Arbor, MI! I enjoy listening to music, playing disc golf, and experimenting with rapid prototyping tools.

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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.  

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