[Daniel] has been metalworking on a budget for a while now. Originally doing things like plasma cutting on old bricks, he used his original plasma cutter to make an appropriate plasma cutting table ...

When using any CNC machine the system has to understand where the part to be machined is physically located. This is most commonly done by jogging the tool to a position relative to the part and then ...

Industrial processes are becoming more and more accessible to hobbyists and engineering renegades, those unaffiliated with research institutions or patent-churning corporations. Case in point, as of ...

Makers, hobbyists, engineers and mechanics looking for an easy way to cut through metal as if it were butter, may be interested in a new desktop CNC plasma cutter named the ArcDroid, created by a team ...

The HPLC Series CNC Plasma Cutter from Techno Inc., New Hyde Park, N. Y. (www.technocnc.com), features simple operation, precision torch positioning, closed-loop position feedback, and heavy-duty ...

BEAR LAKE — Lisa Reed is one of those craft people who gets the rare opportunity to see her work displayed at many locations around the Manistee County area. Reed runs Farmside Metal Art in Bear Lake, ...

A growing number of farmers are opting to tool up with engineering-grade workshop equipment to produce their own machinery parts. And when it comes to carving out perfect sheet metal profiles, there’s ...

Well, our cyberpunk-weapons-making friend Patrick Priebe has been at it again. Having previously built things like a gauss rifle, a rotary-blade-shooting crossbow and an Iron Man laser gauntlet, he ...