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Workholding is generally not a problem on a big CNC plasma cutter.; gravity does a pretty good job of keeping heavy sheet steel in place on the bed. But what …read more Continue reading Electromagnets Make Vertical CNC Cutter a Little Stickier
[enhydra] needed to modify a bunch of side inserts from some cheap ABS enclosures, and to save time and effort, he created a simple vacuum table with swappable inserts to …read more Continue reading Modular Vacuum Table Custom-Fits The Parts
Thanks to 3D printing, most of us are familiar with the concept of additive manufacturing, and by extension, subtractive manufacturing. But what is it when you’re neither adding material nor …read more Continue reading A SPIF-fy Way of Forming Metal
The trouble with building a business around selling low-margin widgets is that you have to find a way to make a lot of them to make it worth your while. …read more Continue reading Autofeeding CNC Lathe Cranks Out Parts All By Itself
When you own an enormous CNC router, you’ve got to find projects that justify it. So why not shoot for the sky — literally — and build the 1980s-est possible …read more Continue reading Mega-CNC Router Carves Styrofoam Into a Full-Size Flying Delorean
Carbon fiber (CF) is an amazing material that provides a lot of strength for very little weight, making it very useful for a lot of applications, ranging from rods in …read more Continue reading Make Carbon Fiber Tubes With An Open Source Filament Winder
[Sebastian] describes himself as “a total noob” when it comes to CNC, so in an attempt to get to know his new CNC router, he chose about the most complex …read more Continue reading Wooden Game Boy is a Challenging Intro CNC Project
I never feel like I have enough space in my workshop. The promise of consolidating tools to make the most of limited space drew me to the Snapmaker Artisan, a …read more Continue reading What The Artisan 3-in-1 CNC Offers (If One Has The Table Space)
There was a time when plotters were the pinnacle of computer graphics output. While they aren’t as common as they used to be, there are some advantages to having a …read more Continue reading Lessons Learned While Building a DIY Pen Plotter
Soldering pin headers by hand is a tedious task, especially when your project has a huge number of them. [iforce2d] has a large number of boards with a lot of …read more Continue reading CNC Soldering Bot Handles Your Headers