Alan Parekh of Hacked Gadgets has created an industrial-looking clock from wooden gears, a PIC microcontroller, and a scavenged stepper motor. This unique project blends traditional woodworking with ...
How to cut and smooth gear and clock wheel teeth: In this video I cover the how & why from start to finish. Scroll saw blade used, blade tension, blade breakage, safety, how to cut the pattern, ...
Some gear (vintage campers, longbows, and surfboards) should be made from wood. But ice tools, which need to be insanely durable and strong? They’ve always been made from metal—and for good ...
The combination of time-lapse photography and slow camera panning can be quite hypnotic – think of those cool sunset to nightfall shots where the camera slowly pans across a cityscape with car lights ...
A CNC cutting nest parts appears briefly in this marketing video cutting wood kits for a ready-to-assemble wood device that makes any bicycle into the legendary clip-clopping non-horse of Monty Python ...
When the Leica T was announced in April, much was made of its solid aluminum body, designed in collaboration with Audi. Which is what makes it kind of surprising that an accessory maker would want to ...
As tech and design have advanced, we’ve developed more and more products made from plastics and other artificial composites. From a business standpoint they make sense — they’re easy to manufacture, ...
Despite all our technological achievements, humans still spend a lot of time waiting around for trains. Add a stiff winter breeze to the injury of commuting, and you’ve got a classic recipe for misery ...