Making pizza is fun, but eating pizza is even better. Ideally, you’ll get to spend much more time doing the latter than the former. If you had a pizza-making CNC machine, that would help you achieve ...

We feature a lot of how-to and diy projects here at Popular Mechanics, but many of them require an expensive piece of equipment: a CNC router. These computer-controlled cutting machines can create ...

We’re interested in any device that can make a PCB out of a copper-clad board, and this entry for the Hackaday Prize might be the simplest machine for PCB fabrication yet. It’s called the Projecta, ...

Once, long ago when magazines still existed, I bought a copy of Popular Mechanics. Inside was a guide on how to build a robotic lawnmower. Now this was back in the 1980s so it wasn’t a very complex ...

Case summary: Stepper and driver package increases positioning and cutting speeds of small, personal CNC routers to that of much larger machines. End User: ShopBot Tools Inc., Durham, N.C. Engineering ...

Hello, I would like to make a very narrow slot in a thin (0.0085” thick) aluminum sheet alloy 5123. Ideally the slot would be 0.001-0.002” wide but I will take what I can get. I probably cannot get a ...

DAZAO, a CNC milling manufacturer based in China, has announced it will take part in Metalloobrabotka 2026. Metalloobrabotka 2026 is one of Russia’s largest machine tool and metalworking exhibitions.

Ready for some hard core gadget creation? If you thought your dremel tool was handy before, in today's How-To we'll start building our own CNC machine. Aside from the geek factor, it can be handy for ...

Crafting and fabrication are the means by which engineers, creatives, and D.I.Y.-ers bring their dreams to life. Unfortunately, the process of actually making things by hand is difficult, messy, and ...