6 Bike Storage Solutions You Can Build Right Now
These 6 bike storage methods should give you some ideas for how to make your own so that your bike can have a place to live when not in use.
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The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
6 Bicycles and Accessories for the Cycling Woodworker
Riding a bike and a love of the outdoors and nature go hand-in-hand. Why not combine the two by actually making your bike out of wood? Although it’s hard to avoid using some rubber and metal in your design, even a wooden accessory or set of frame parts will definitely make people look twice! Bamboo […]
Weekend Project: Lost Screw Finder
Ever have a screw loose? If so, you might need this easy to build attachment to help you find that screw — including plastic ones that a magnet would miss. Thanks go to Frank Ford for the original article in Make: Vol 13. You can download the entire project in PDF format for viewing later in your workshop. […]
Fully Functioning Giant Game Boy is Perfect for Parties
Many of us have a nostalgic connection to the Game Boy. Sure, the screen was small and in black and white (or was it green?), but if you were a child of the 80s, this was as good as it got for portable gaming. Unless, of course, you could afford something more exotic like a […]
Shapeoko’s Steady March Toward a Better, Affordable CNC
Back in 2012 I wrote a piece on Shapeoko, Edward Ford, and his CNC community. At the time he was on the verge of bringing the first good quality, affordable CNC to market. Now in 2015 he’s releasing Shapeoko 3 and by all evidence his guiding principles haven’t changed. With the release of Shapeoko 3, he’s delivering […]
Epic Fails: 3 Elite Makers Discuss The Upside of Failure
Over the past few months, three notable makers have been delighting listeners with their podcasted conversations about tools, creativity, and the magic of building. The show, called Making It, comes from David Picciuto (The Drunken Woodworker), Bob Clagett (I Like to Make Stuff), and Jimmy DiResta (Discovery’s Dirty Money, and regular Make: video contributor). During […]
Jurassic Park Car Replica Is Perfect for Dinosaur Hunting
This Jurassic Park tour vehicle replica seems like it could have been driven straight out of the original Jurassic Park movie. This awesome car was made by Imgur user scoodidabop. He started with a ’93 Ford Explorer and made quite a few changes to it. He spent about two years looking for the parts he needed and spent over a year actually working on it. […]
