Tools

The Othermill, a Desktop Milling Machine with Snap Fit Joints

Today Otherfab announced a Kickstarter for the Othermill, a unique desktop milling machine. The Othermill is an evolution of the MTM Snap milling machine developed by Otherfab’s Jonathan Ward over the past few years. Otherfab is a small group of engineers and designers within Otherlab, and Jonathan was formerly at the Center for Bits and Atoms. The Othermill comes out of the Fab Lab ecosystem, and is comparable to the Roland Modela in that paradigm.

Continue Reading May 6th, 2013 Shawn Wallace6

Charge Your Smartphone–With Fire!

If fire wasn’t the first thing invented, it was probably the second. The human race has had a long relationship with fire, and now you can use it to charge your smartphone, GPS, or anything else that you can connect to this thermoelectric generator using a USB cable.

Continue Reading May 2nd, 2013 Alasdair Allan12

10 Tips for Better Measurement

Here are some helpful pointers on measurement to help make sure you do it correctly.

Continue Reading May 1st, 2013May 24th, 2016 Michael Colombo42

A Foot-Powered Lathe

Youtube user QueticoChris uses an old cast-iron flywheel and vintage building techniques to design and make an efficient foot-powered wood lathe.

Continue Reading April 26th, 2013 Michael Colombo22

The Solder Buddy

This mechanised solder dispenser was built by design engineer Jude Pullen, as an example of what could be done using ABS plastic sheeting, a broken brake cable from a bicycle, and some Sugru.

Continue Reading April 25th, 2013 Alasdair Allan4

Kickstarting the HexBright: Adventures in Flashlight Hacking

Christian Carlberg is a Cornell-educated mechanical engineer. After his undergraduate degree, he spent three years doing classical aerospace work and getting an MS, part time, at night school. At 25 he moved to LA to work in movie FX, specifically “practical effects”—physical, animatronic robot-based puppets now in decline thanks to low-cost CGI. After that, he […]

Continue Reading April 23rd, 2013 Sean Michael Ragan34

Inside MIT’s Hobby Shop

It’s remarkable how the MIT Hobby Shop presages aspects of the hackerspace movement… In the 1937-38 academic year, Vannevar Bush, then Vice President of MIT, granted a group of 16 MIT students permission to use a room in the basement of building 2. With equipment they found around the Institute they set up a wood […]

Continue Reading April 18th, 2013 John Baichtal4

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