Feed Your Fasteners in Line, With a Bowl Feeder
If you spend much time around industrial processes, you may have seen a vibrating bowl feeder at work. It’s a clever but simple machine that takes an unruly pile of
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Bare Bones Vacuum Forming, Just Add Plastic Plates
Vacuum forming is a handy thing to be able to do, and [3DSage] demonstrates how to do a bare-bones system that can form anything smaller than a dinner plate with
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Homebrew Probe Tip Etcher Makes Amazingly Sharp Needles
There’s a simple reason why high-tech gadgets like PCs, TVs and smartphones are so cheap: they’re mass-produced. By spreading out huge engineering costs over equally huge production volumes, the cost
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Bringing Da Vinci’s Saw Mill to Life
DaVinci’s notebook — the real one, not the band — was full of wonderous inventions, though many were not actually built and probably weren’t even practical with the materials available
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Making an Injection Mold For Yourself
Injection molding is the obvious onward step from 3D printing when the making of a few plastic parts becomes their series manufacture. The problem with injection molding is though, that
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Hackaday Prize 2023: Universal Tensile Testing Machine
Material testing is important in big industry, where manufacturers must be able to trust the properties of the raw materials they’re using. The rest of us generally take a supplier’s
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Repairing a Home Injection Molding Machine
When [Michael] over at the Teaching Tech YouTube channel bought a hobby injection molding machine a long time ago, one of the plans he had with it was to use
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Mechanical Pencil Solder Feeder Hack
Want a better way to feed solder, but want to do it on the quick and cheap? Well [ptkrf] has a solution for you in an old instructables post we
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A Simple One-Handed Solder Feeder
Soldering can get frustrating when you’re working fast. It often feels like you don’t have enough hands, particularly on jobs where you need to keep feeding solder in a hurry.
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Hackaday Prize 2023: Homebrew Spin Coater Makes Micrometer-Thin Layers
One of the great things about the Gearing Up challenge of the 2023 Hackaday Prize is that it lets you discover tools that you don’t encounter every day. We had
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