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Europe’s machine tool sector is facing a serious slowdown
In recent years, the European Association of Manufacturing Technologies warned that the machine tool industry is facing a severe d...
Franken-engine Plays Its Own Swan Song at 15k RPM
Back during WWII, Chrysler bodged five inline-6 engines together to create the powerful A57 multibank tank engine. [Maisteer] has ...
Necroprinting Isn’t As Bad As It Sounds
A mosquito has a very finely tuned proboscis that is excellent at slipping through your skin to suck out the blood beneath. Resear...
How to Make Big Cabinets on a Small CNC Router
It’s easy to build big wooden furniture if you have a massive industrial CNC router, but few of us are so lucky. However, you can ...
How To Print PETG as Transparently as Possible
PETG filament can be had in a variety of colors, just like any other. You can even get translucent or transparent forms if you wan...
Learning by doing: how additive manufacturing is inspiring youngest
Academic institutions are getting hands-on with additive manufacturing to create more engaging courses that better prepare student...
Making the invisible visible: smart connected valves deliver precise gas control, boosting efficiency and improving quality
In the age of Industry 4.0, “visibility” goes far beyond what meets the eye. Smart factories are now leveraging sensors, IoT, and ...
Casting Metal Tools With Kitchen Appliances
Perhaps the biggest hurdle to starting a home blacksmithing operating is the forge. There’s really no way around having a forge; s...
An Improbable, Doomed Star System in a Clockwork Coffee Table
The major objects in our solar system orbit along the plane of the ecliptic, plus or minus few degrees, and it turns out most exop...
EuroBlech 2026: early exhibition registration and new features
The global sheet metal working industry is already preparing for EuroBLECH 2026, following a successful 2024 edition that prompted...
Concrete Lathe Turns Metal
Full disclosure. If you want a lathe capable of turning metal stock, you probably should just buy one. But what fun is that? You c...
A boost to incorporate laser technology into European industrial production
Laser technology is a highly resilient and adaptable solution used to address manufacturing challenges. Compared to rigid conventi...
USA 50%- steel and aluminium tariffs raise costs and add uncertainty
The US administration has expanded the scope of existing Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium to cover, for the first time, ...
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...