The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
Collin @ MAKE points us to Sakura Koshimizu’s waveform jewelry which uses audio to create patterns: Waveform Series is the laser-cut shapes of the waveform of the sound in sound editing software environment. I used some human sound such as yawn, atchoum, giggle, wow, and the sound of church bell.
From the all-important step #2 of this Instructable: “Don’t Poison Gas Attack Yourself, etc.” Useful for anyone who wants to make welds without spending much: Welding is usually the easiest and quickest way to build something. You just put the parts next to each other and weld them. You don’t have to drill bolt holes […]
I am in awe of the work by Lynette Andreasen, a graduate metal arts student at Arizona State University. Embroidery is my favorite craft, and seeing it worked into metal like this leaves me breathless. She shares more of her work on her blog and through Flickr, and one of my other favorite pieces is […]
Out of all the gadgets that James Bond has used over the past 40 years, he has never been given a laser weapon. While he was given an Omega Laser watch in GoldenEye and Die Another Day, he only used it to cut through the floor of a train and a section of ice. Sure […]
The Instructables book has a nice little write up in the NYTimes! Penelope Green writes- The duct tape roses I made over Thanksgiving were fetching (until they were gummed by the cat), but post-turkey lethargy prevented me from digging into the meatiest projects in “The Best of Instructables†(Make: Books; $34.99). One example: the concrete […]
We recently got a copy of No Starch Press’s The Manga Guide to Statistics, by Shin Takahashi – but I didn’t get to look at it for a few days because my son snagged it pretty much as it came through the door. Which confirms my theory – if you want to introduce a subject […]
You know steampunk has gone mainstream when it seeps into academic institutions… I recently was given a steampunk assignment in one of my sculpture/metalworking classes, so I modded a vintage Kenmore sewing machine with some spare parts from Phoenix’s favorite junk shop, Apache Reclamation. The propellers on the drive wheel and thread spool spin when […]
