Laser-Cut a Drag Chain
Martin Raynsford made this drag chain out of parts he laser-cut out of 2mm MDF. A drag chain protects wires from snagging, usually on constructs that move, like the toolhead of a CNC router.
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A “Make Tank” in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Research straddles itself between hackerspace, company, and co-working space.
The ITP Laser Cutter
Yesterday this year’s ITP Summer Camp kicked off with a series of how to introductions, basic “Hello World” courses, giving introductions to soldering, Arduino, Processing, and how to use their laser cutter. An Epilog Mini 24 โ a 50 Watt desktop laser cutter.
The Chore Wheel to End All Chore Wheels
Maker David Rios has solved an age-old problem for living with housemates – getting the chores done. And he’s done so in laser-cut style.
DIY Laser Cutter for PCB Stencils
I love this — a laser cutter just powerful enough to cut vinyl, but that’s great for creating your own PCBs. Are you sick and tired of using a tooth pick to apply solder paste? Are you still using through hole components because you donโt want to deal with soldering surface mount devices (SMD)? If […]
Charles Guan: Build Your Everything Really Really Fast
Charles Guan is an MIT alumnus, and has been making projects that have been festive and amazing over the past few years. Charles has been influential in the MIT Makerspace/club MITERS, where students create all manner of great projects. He and MITERS members have been frequent fliers at various Maker Faires, so you may already be familiar with his work.
Charles has served as a Teaching Assistant at MIT in Mechanical Engineering, helping his fellow students to fabricate the contraptions of their dreams. As a TA, he’s heard the same questions over and over, so he created some instructional documentation to make his and his fellow students’ lives easier. This was a set of lectures and handouts he called How to Build Your Robot Really Really Fast (HTBYRRRF). In more recent times, he set out to update this as a more inclusive set of building guides. Drawing from his own online documentation, he was able to codify his ideas into a thorough Instructable: How to Build Your Everything Really Really Fast, or HTBYERRF.
Laser-Cut VW Vanagon
The laser cutter is an amazing machine. The level of precision is impressive โ it can transform a digital rendering into a beautiful object, being faithful to the exact design, down to the smallest detail. Flickr user Greyerlynx used a laser cutter to immortalize his 1986 VW Vanagon in a five-layer cutaway. I think it’s […]
