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View All →Why workers resist safety gear and how to change it
Industrial and manufacturing employees require safety gear on the plant floor. Learn four ways to encourage PP...
Our New Years Wish is to Hide in a Giant Pokéball
Between the news, the world situation, and the inevitable family stresses that come this time of year, well — ...
3D Printed PC Case Focuses On Ease Of Access
There are all kinds of fun, glowing PC cases on the market these days. However, if you want something that foc...
Pause Print, Add Hardware, and Enjoy Strength
3D Printing is great, but it is pretty much the worst way to make any given part– except that every other tech...
Cheap 3D Printer Becomes CNC Wood Engraver
3D printers are built for additive manufacturing. However, at heart, they are really just simple CNC motion pl...
Make Your Own Tires For RC Cars
You can buy a wide range of RC car tires off the shelf. Still, sometimes it can be hard to find exactly what y...
Laser Cutter Plus CYMK Spraypaint Equals Full-Color Prints
This is one of those fun hacks that come about from finding a product and going “I wonder if I could…” — in th...
Franken-engine Plays Its Own Swan Song at 15k RPM
Back during WWII, Chrysler bodged five inline-6 engines together to create the powerful A57 multibank tank eng...
Necroprinting Isn’t As Bad As It Sounds
A mosquito has a very finely tuned proboscis that is excellent at slipping through your skin to suck out the b...
How to Make Big Cabinets on a Small CNC Router
It’s easy to build big wooden furniture if you have a massive industrial CNC router, but few of us are so luck...
How To Print PETG as Transparently as Possible
PETG filament can be had in a variety of colors, just like any other. You can even get translucent or transpar...
Casting Metal Tools With Kitchen Appliances
Perhaps the biggest hurdle to starting a home blacksmithing operating is the forge. There’s really no way arou...
An Improbable, Doomed Star System in a Clockwork Coffee Table
The major objects in our solar system orbit along the plane of the ecliptic, plus or minus few degrees, and it...
Concrete Lathe Turns Metal
Full disclosure. If you want a lathe capable of turning metal stock, you probably should just buy one. But wha...
A Toolchanging Inverse SCARA 3D Printer
There are some times when a picture, or better yet a video, really is worth a thousand words, and [heinz]’s du...
3D Printing A New Kind Of Skateboard That Is Ultimately Unsafe
Skateboards were organically developed in the 1940s and 1950s; 30 years would then pass before the ollie was d...
Flashlight Repair Brings Entire Workshop to Bear
The modern hacker and maker has an incredible array of tools at their disposal — even a modestly appointed wor...
Turning a Milling Machine into a Lathe
If you’re planning to make a metalworking lathe out of a CNC milling machine, you probably don’t expect gettin...