The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
Editor’s Note: This is a reprint of our original story by Becky Stern in Make: Volume 21 covering the founding of MakerBot Industries, which Wednesday announced it was purchased by Stratasys, a worldwide player in industrial 3D printing.
The announcement that industrial 3D printer company Stratasys has acquired the consumer-focused start-up MakerBot has sent shockwaves through the Maker world in the last 24 hours. This morning at MakerBot HQ in Brooklyn, NY, Bre Pettis and David Rice, principles in the two companies, gave a press conference to talk more about the deal, and what it means for the burgeoning 3D printing home market.
Buzzfeed has posted some vintage Dutch work safety posters that are both scary and effective. This one definitely downplays the copious amount of blood that would actually be spattered across the table saw where you just cut off your entire thumb.
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Jake von Slatt is a Massachusetts-based tinkerer, hardware hacker, author, speaker, webmaster, and proprietor of The Steampunk Workshop. Jake seamlessly straddles hands-on proficiency in making 19th-century-inspired contraptions and being an IT specialist with a focus on Linux. His creativity and ability to blend old and new make his work noteworthy. On the pages of MAKE […]
“I have this train I bought in Germany,” said Lynn, who approached me at a train show, “and I’m looking for someone to build a railroad for me.”
This gorgeous homemade electric guitar, modeled after the Fender Jazzmaster, was made from a 2″ slab of alder wood. From there, the maker planed, jigsawed, wired, sanded, sealed, primed, lacquered, buffed, and copper shielded their way to the finished pale green guitar, which is quite handsome. After going through the whole painstaking process, the maker comments at the end: “Whew…. I kind of want to build another…. Am I a sadist?”
