One of the original ideas behind the RepRap project was for the machines to create their own upgrades. That philosophy is shining brightly in [Ivan Miranda] CNC milling machine project, which has been ...

Combining additive and subtractive manufacturing in one machine is on the rise. From Mebotics' Kickstarter project for an all-in-one 3D printing/etching/milling machine we told you about last year, to ...

Yes, you can whip up a design for a printed circuit board, send it out to one of the many fab houses, and receive a finished, completed board in a week or two. There are quick-turn assembly houses ...

iModela Produces Miniatures, Models, Jewelry, Accessories and Craft Embellishments from Modeling Wax, Foam, Balsa Wood and Plastic Irvine, Calif., Feb. 2, 2012 – Roland DGA Corp. has introduced the ...

3D printers are very limited to the materials that they can use. Carvey takes a different approach. It's a desktop mounted, rapid-modelling, 3D carving device that can sculpt wood, plastic, and metal ...

Holy mother of Gandalf! Some amazing guy called Arthur Sacek has built this 3D milling machine entirely out of Lego. Be sure to watch the video till the very end, when he reveals the resulting model ...

Photo: Make A few months ago, we covered a Kinect hack that allowed you to pose in front of a Microsoft Kinect and then have the pose carved into a piece of foam. Since then, 3D printing has gotten ...

FCP: Help me understand the qualitative or quantitative improvement this has over previous generations? Kevin Garcia (Trimble): What Roadworks does though, is it migrates to the to the newer platform, ...

Siemens used this test part to demonstrate new state-of-the-art milling techniques. It is made of tool steel hardened to 54 HRC and was machined on a Micron HPM 800U machining center. Something most ...

Ah, Lego. A cultural icon, the building blocks of dreams, scattered inspiration awaiting the creative process. Lest we get too poetic, below is a mere glimpse of rare and excellent footage we ...