Ten Tips for Organizing and Optimizing Workshops
Ten simple ways to improve efficiency and arrangement in many different types of workshops.
Workshop
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
Inexpensive “Click-and-Scan” 3D Scanner Soars on Indiegogo
The Photon, an affordable 3D scanner, has already quadrupled its $80,000 Indiegogo goal, with still two weeks to go. Almost as gratifying: the Photon has generated a flurry of proposed uses for the device beyond the original “maker hobbyist” market they were targeting. The Photon is the first product from Toronto-based company Matterform, founded by friends and collaborators Adam Branejs and Drew Cox.
Herr Heinisch’s Homemade Helping Hands
German maker Oliver Heinisch shares his clever homemade bench-top clamp arrangement.
How-To: Log Slice Vase
Green up your home decor with a pretty log slice vase!
Cyclist Chic: Turn a Wooden Crate into a Cool Cargo Box
Our friends at Dark Rye, an online magazine from Whole Foods, have come up with a project for turning a wooden crate into a retro bike cargo box. It’s a simple, but useful bike mod. The project comes from Dark Rye’s latest “Future” issue. It’s a great read featuring forward-looking innovators in architecture, urban agriculture, energy production, and transportation.
The Smart Gallery
How the artists of Oakland’s Lost and Foundry are paving their own path against convention.
Ironwood
One of the world’s great engineering materials grows on trees.
