The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
If you’re gearing up for a 3D printer, home brew CNC machine, camera rig, robotics, or automation project and are looking for a mini t-slot solution that uses common off-the-shelf fasteners, then check out OpenBeam.
Michael Castor compares the Garrett Wade Yankee push drill against an original Stanley version in this week’s Toolsday column. See how it stacks up against a tried and true classic.
Instructables superstar Ray Alderman guest-stars on Make: Projects with this quick, cool, easy method for casting a custom concrete candleholder using a cookie-cutter as a mold. Thanks so much, Ray!
Using wood end pieces from other projects, A&Ré design mated the resulting slab to simple and clean looking legs made from fiber concrete. The legs were made in collaboration with betonWare, making for a unique look while still being sturdy. The result is called the Essence Bench, a piece of furniture I certainly wouldn’t mind […]
Setting up shop on a beach in Cornwall, furniture maker Max Lamb meticulously freehands a mold in the sand from which he casts a rather modern-looking hexagonal stool from pewter heated over a camp fire.
Brent Thorne is building a laser-cut wooden computer that can draw fractals.
Our makers this week are Kate Mayfield and Gordon Bowen, owners of the biodiesel-fueled Arts Refoundry in Los Angeles. A couple of weeks ago my 9-year-old daughter Jane and I took a bronze casting workshop at Arts ReFoundry.
