Workshop Wednesday: How To Heat-Bend Acrylic Enclosures
Learn how to use heat-bending to shape your project enclosures. Acrylic is a great material to use for this. It’s sleek, durable, and easily shaped.
Workshop
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
Inspiration: DIY Dodecahedron Pendant Light
Need a little DIY inspiration? Check out this gorgeous dodecahedron pendant light!
Victorian Watch Repair
Renaissance man Tim Hunkin wrote an article in the latest issue of MAKE (Vol. 33) about his adventures in vintage watch restoration. Here are some pocketwatch images to whet your appetite.
Make Your Own CNC Wire Bender
How to make your own desktop wire bender.
Unreasonable Rocketeers
The new space race is maker-made.
The Buckaroo Banzai
Dezso Molnar elevates flying motorcycles from fiction to fact.
2012: 3D Printing’s Big Year
Two thousand and twelve was 3D printing’s breakout year. While still the realm of early adopters, the 3D printing genie is clearly out of the bottle. I checked in with several consumer-class 3D printer companies to see how 2012 went down and to get their thoughts on 2013 and beyond. Everyone I spoke with was extremely bullish about the future of 3D printing and some were already rolling out new models.
