Your Projects: Six Awesome Projects Shared by MAKE Readers
“Your Projects” is a column that features some of the awesome creations our readers have been making. These projects from our readers come from the MAKE Google+ Community and beyond.
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Christopher Blasius’ Wooden CNC Router
Christopher Blasius of Holz Mechanik built this sweet CNC router out of wood, and anyone with a drill, a jigsaw, and a router or table saw can build it. I love the elegant and useful bellows system for protecting the guts from the omnipresent dust and wood chips! The X and Y are 300mm (about […]
How to Safely Use a CNC
UK electronic and mechanical store RS Components created this handy guide to operating a CNC in a safe manner, with a focus on operating a CNC you built yourself. Click the image to see it full sized.
CNCed Dark Side of the Moon
Minneapolis ShopBot maestro Greg Flanagan made this 42″ CNCed representation of the moon, specifically a shot of the moon’s dark side. Greg used NASA’s GLD-100 lunar topographical map as a starting point, and the final piece is a gift to his wife Marie on their 5th anniversary.
Building Aluminum Guitars: The Open-Source Lobo CNC
This 3-axis CNC can go where 3D printers cannot.
Lost PLA Casting from 3D Prints
Jeshua Lacock recounted his experience of casting metal parts directly from 3D Printed PLA with a fantastic photo-filled writeup and video. He prints the part with his Ultimaker and pours mold material around it before letting it set. After the mold hardens, it’s placed in his homemade furnace to melt away the PLA, leaving a beautiful female mold behind, into which he can pour molten metal.
Grow: A Portable CNC Router System
The Grow CNC, a portable CNC router system: I am the James Dyson Fellow at the Royal College of Art’s InnovationRCA. I have developed a new type of portable full scale flat bed CNC router. The design is aimed at professional power tool users and maker/hackers alike. The design is modular in nature, and can […]
