Collaborate Disseminate
We’ve seen plenty of plywood 3D printers before; after all, many early hobbyist machines were made from laser-cut plywood. But this plywood 3D-printer isn’t made from plywood – it prints plywood. Well, sort of.
Yes, we know – that’s not plywood the printer is using, but rather particleboard, the same …read more
Continue reading 3D Printer Meets CNC Router to Make Wood Prints
CNC machine tools are highly useful for when you want to take a CAD design and make real parts as quickly and as easily as possible. Typically, they’re employed in large-scale industrial settings, but CNC machines come in all shapes and sizes. It’s possible to build a useful machine that’s …read more
Put yourself in [This Old Tony]’s shoes: you get an email out of the blue asking you to take part in making a replica of a 50-year-old spacecraft. Would you believe it? He didn’t, at least not at first, but in the end it proved to be true enough that …read more
Continue reading Project Egress: A Bracket And A Bell Crank For The Latches
[Fran Blanche] is on the team of elite hackers that has been offered a chance to contribute to [Adam Savage]’s Project Egress, a celebration of the engineering that got humanity to the Moon 50 years ago this month. By the luck of the draw, she landed a great assignment: building …read more
The Googie style was a major architectural trend of the post-war period in the United States. It remains popular to throwback to this style, and [Wesley Treat] got the job to create a sign in this vein for a local trailer motel (Youtube link, embedded below).
CNC tools make just …read more
Continue reading Building a Googie-Style Sign With The Help Of CNC
It doesn’t seem as though bending wire would be much of a chore, but when you’re making art from your circuits, it can be everything. Just the right angle in just the right place can make the difference between a circuit sculpture that draws gasps and one that’s only “Meh.” …read more
Continue reading Wire Bender Aims to Take Circuit Sculptures To The Next Level
Across the Northern Hemisphere it is now summer and the growing season is in full swing. Vigorous plants that will soon bear tasty fruit are springing forth from the soil, but unfortunately so are a lush carpet of weeds that require the constant attention of the gardener. “If only …read more
Continue reading FarmBot Unveils New CNC Gardening Robot Models
In our continuing series of, ‘point and laugh at this guy’, I present a Kickstarter for the, “World’s First Patented Unhackable Computer Ever”. It’s also a real web site and there’s even a patent (US 10,061,923, not showing up on Google Patents for some reason), and a real product: you …read more
As I’ve now ended 34+ years of public service, I’m going to burn a few posts on where I’ve been and what I’ve tried to accomplish.
Like many people my age, my path toward a career in technology was non-linear. My first stop after a Baccalaureate … Continue reading Thirty-four Years – Instructor, Machinist, CNC and CAD/CAM (Part 1)
Rub two pieces of metal against each other hard enough, and it won’t be long before they heat up sufficiently to cause problems. That’s especially true when one is a workpiece and one is a tool edge, and the problems that arise from failing to manage the heat produced by …read more
Continue reading Custom Machined Pump Keeps CNC Lubrication Under Control