Collaborate Disseminate
The problem with building automated systems is that it’s hard to look at any problem and not see it in terms of possible automation solutions. Come to think of it, …read more Continue reading Adding Two Axes Makes CNC Router More Than the Sum of Its Parts
We know that when [Big Clive] puts up another video, the chances are we’re in for another fascinating look into a piece of tech on his bench. The latest is …read more Continue reading What’s In a Slip Ring?
Have you ever watched a movie or a video and really noticed the quality of the camera work? If you have, chances are the camera operator wasn’t very skilled, since …read more Continue reading Kino Wheels Gives You a Hand Learning Camera Operation
On the technology spectrum, railroads would certainly seem to skew toward the brutally simplistic side of things. A couple of strips of steel, some wooden ties and gravel ballast to …read more Continue reading Feeling the Heat: Railway Defect Detection
[Cranktown City] uses a number of custom-built linear rails used as gantries for various tools in the shop. The first is on a plasma cutter, which is precise but difficult …read more Continue reading Icicle Patterns With Custom Gantry
Like a lot of power transmission components, bearings have become far easier to source than they once were. It used to be hard to find exactly what you need, but …read more Continue reading Adding Wire Races Improves 3D-Printed Bearings
[Tom Stanton] is right about one thing: flywheels make excellent playthings. Whether watching a spinning top that never seems to slow down, or feeling the weird forces a gyroscope exerts, …read more Continue reading Magnetic Bearings Put the Spin on This Flywheel Battery
Remember Heelys, the shoes with wheels in the heels? Just lift up your toes, and away you go. We were at least ten or fifteen years older than the target demographic, but got a pair anyway just to please our inner child and have some fun. Young kids would wear …read more
Clocks are a popular project around here, and with good reason. There’s a ton of options, and there’s always a new take on ways to tell time. Clocks using lasers, words, or even ball bearings are all atypical ways of displaying time, but like a mathematician looking for a general …read more
If 2020 can be remembered in any positive light, it would be that this has been the year of the hobby tryouts. Why not pottery? Sure, throwing pots won’t fill your belly like homemade bread. But we would bet you can see the value in having a bunch of expendable …read more
Continue reading Take Pottery for a Spin with a Pocket-Sized Wheel