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I made a mold for injection molding Makey Robot spinning tops a few weeks ago. The tops are designed to be giveaway items at Maker Faire Milwaukee...

I made the majority of this homemade EDM a long time ago.  Recently I have been finishing this project by making a better structure for the linear...

In the past week I have updated ScorchCAD a couple of times.  The first update helped verify that the autocomplete function in the ScorchCAD Editor...

F-Engrave v1.56 is out with some bug fixes and better line/arc fitting. There was a huge bug in the old curve fitting which caused the "M" in...

I made a quick little 3D printable fixture to aid in the construction of stick bombs.  The type of bomb this fixture makes is my favorite.  If the...

My two boys love having a 3D printer in the house.  I have made a variety of items for them.  My 9 year old, Derek, came up with a great little...

Halloween is approaching so I thought I would share the Jack-o-lantern that I made for Halloween last year (2014).   I carved an image, lithophane...

This year I took my two boys to the Kansas City Maker Faire for the second year in a row.  We once again had a great time.  This year we attended...

We are continuing the tradition of custom Maker Faire hitch covers for our Maker Faire road trips.  Since the Minneapolis St. Paul Mini Maker...

I find myself doing CNC work on wood about half of the time so I thought it would be nice to have a high speed spindle.  I decided to mount my...

Ever since I first saw a lithophane in a YouTube video I have thought they were really cool.  I have made cylindrical lithophanes previously with my...

This is a collection of bottle openers that I made from 16D common nails.  Some of them work better than others but I tried to incorporate a...

A couple of years ago Fran posted a really interesting video demonstrating friction welding. Fran used a cheap harbor freight rotary tool and...

I have been playing with making spherical lithophanes with my new 3D printer (PrintrBot Simple Metal).  I wrote some Java code to read the image...

When my kids and I went to Maker Faire Kansas City we made a Maker Faire themed cover for the hitch receiver on our minivan.  For Kansas City we...

I have been sporadically experimenting with my electric micro foundry setup for almost a year.  Recently I have been trying different...

I thought it would be interesting to see how well a simple hot glue gun with standard hot glue could produce injection molded parts.  Although...

G-Code Ripper Version 0.05 is now available.  The new version can export tool paths read from a g-code file to a DXF or CSV (Comma Separated...

I uploaded version 1.33 of F-Engrave, it is available on my web page. (F-Engrave 1.33) Changes in Version 1.33: - Added option for scaling...

Sometimes a  broken part was generally too weak to begin with or does not have much surface area for bonding.  To achieve a  good repair additional...

I saw a video of a cylindrical lithophane made from a PVC pipe a few years back (You tube Link).  I had always wanted to replicate it.  Not only...

F-Engrave now can determine which side of the loops in a DXF design need to be cut.  Previously the input needed to be formatted so that the...

I had a chance to sit down for a couple of minutes with a 3Doodler.  In just a minute or two I made the little tripod tower in the picture.  It...

F-Engrave V1.22 is now available.  This version fixed a few DXF import bugs and a v-carve cleanup bug.  I also changed the lower limit on the...

I have been working on making a very small electric furnace for doing small aluminum castings.  As part of testing an early iteration of the...