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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 this case, artist/YouT...
Europe’s machine tool sector is facing a serious slowdown
In recent years, the European Association of Manufacturing Technologies warned that the machine tool industry is facing a severe d...
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 engine. [Maisteer] has ...
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 blood beneath. Resear...
Making the invisible visible: smart connected valves deliver precise gas control, boosting efficiency and improving quality
In the age of Industry 4.0, “visibility” goes far beyond what meets the eye. Smart factories are now leveraging sensors, IoT, and ...
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 turns out most exop...
EuroBlech 2026: early exhibition registration and new features
The global sheet metal working industry is already preparing for EuroBLECH 2026, following a successful 2024 edition that prompted...
Concrete Lathe Turns Metal
Full disclosure. If you want a lathe capable of turning metal stock, you probably should just buy one. But what fun is that? You c...
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 dual-disk polar 3D pri...
The power trio behind superior SAM performance
Selecting and integrating the right transducers, digitisers, and software drives superior Scanning Acoustic Microscopy quality con...
Italian machine tool industry: expected improvement in 2025, but forecast are not brilliant
The year 2024 proved highly challenging for the Italian machine tool, robot, and automation systems industry, marked by significan...
Hacking When It Counts: DIY Prosthetics and the Prison Camp Lathe
There are a lot of benefits to writing for Hackaday, but hands down one of the best is getting paid to fall down fascinating rabbi...