The Pocket Drone: A Kickstarter Success Story
How do you create the most successful crowdfunded drone campaign ever? Ask the maker, Pocket Drone’s T.J. Johnson.
CNC & Machining
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the manufacture of metal, wood, plastic, ceramic and composites. We talk about machining, using a lathe to machine metals like steel, brass, and aluminium. We make chips fly!
Shopbot Desktop: A Step Up In DIY Engineering
I know that 3D printers have been all the rage lately, but let us not forget the humble CNC mill. It’s capable of fast and precise fabrication in a plethora of materials. It definitely earns a place on any serious maker’s workbench. The ShopBot Desktop is a prime example of a desktop CNC.
Building a Spot Welder From a Transformer
Manekinen’s spot welder
Anthony Howe’s Kinetic Art
Anthony Howe builds fantastic, intricate metal creations that move with the wind, almost resembling some sort of alien technology.
PCB Mill-Drill Built From Makeblock Beams
Stijn Kuipers is using his Makeblock aluminum building set to build a PCB mill with two rotary tools, one for boring the vias, and the other for milling the traces.
Chatting with Inventables’ Zach Kaplan About Shapeoko
This Monday, Chicago-based DIY resource Inventables announced the release of Shapeoko 2, hailed as one of the most inexpensive CNC mills in the world — $300 without electronics.
Tutorial: Laser Cutting Techniques and Projects
Ideas for designing projects that exploit the strengths (and avoid the weaknesses) of laser cutters.
Here are three projects, each of which demonstrates techniques and systems I’ve developed specifically for this form of digital fabrication.
