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Trump DOE confirms it’s canceling over $700M in manufacturing grants
The Department of Energy said it was canceling grants to build new factories in places like Alabama and Kentucky. Three startups a...
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...
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 developed, unlocking ...
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 workbench these days wo...
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 getting a position sensor ...
The power trio behind superior SAM performance
Selecting and integrating the right transducers, digitisers, and software drives superior Scanning Acoustic Microscopy quality con...
US manufacturing investment stumbles as clean tech cancellations pile up
Companies canceled $5 billion worth of clean tech manufacturing projects in the U.S. in Q2, mirroring a pullback in the broader ma...
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...
The future of metal fabrication: cutting-edge technologies & industry trends
Professional metal handling plays a vital role across numerous industries, where this versatile material is employed to manufactur...
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...
Solder Stencil Done Three Ways
This project, sent in by [Henk], goes through a few different ways to make a solder stencil using a vinyl cutter, a CO2 laser, and...
Trump administration to claw back $3.7B in clean energy and manufacturing awards
Large corporations and growing startups were wrapped up in the latest move by the Trump administration to undo Biden-era contracts...
“Man and Machine” vs “Man vs Machine”
Every time we end up talking about 3D printers, Al Williams starts off on how bad he is in a machine shop. I’m absolutely sure tha...
Clickspring’s Experimental Archaeology: Concentric Thin-Walled Tubing
It’s human nature to look at the technological achievements of the ancients — you know, anything before the 1990s — and marvel at ...
British startup Isembard lands $9M to reshore manufacturing for critical industries
Geopolitical pressures are accelerating a demand in many countries and regions to reshore — that is, to redevelop critical industr...
Classy Paper Tape Reader Complements Homebrew Retrocomputer
If you were one of the earliest of early adopters in the home computing revolution, you might have had to settle for paper tape ma...
Deep Drawing with Ultrasonics
Small cylindrical parts are often formed through deep drawing — a process by which a punch forms the finished piece from a flat sh...
Make Ice Spheres in a Copper Press
Perfectly clear ice spheres are nifty but can be a bit tricky to make without an apparatus. [Seth Robinson] crafted a copper ice p...
Why the Y?: Benefits of a Y-Axis on a CNC Lathe
In the world of CNC machining, efficiency and precision are critical. Traditional CNC lathes operate primarily on two axes: X (dia...
How AI is Revolutionizing the CNC Machining Industry
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the CNC machining industry is rapidly transforming the way manufacturers desi...
Paper Tape – With LASERs!
Though it is many decades since paper tape was commonly used as a data input or storage medium, it still holds a fascination for m...
A Little Pigment Helps with Laser Glass Engraving
The range of materials suitable for even the cheapest laser cutter is part of what makes them such versatile and desirable tools. ...
Fluid Simulation Pendant Teaches Lessons in Miniaturization
Some projects seem to take on a life of their own. You get an idea, design and prototype it, finally build the thing and — it’s go...
Help Wanted: Keep the World’s Oldest Windmills Turning
While the Netherlands is the country most known for its windmills, they were originally invented by the Persians. More surprisingl...