Plasma cutters are ridiculously cheap these days, just cruise by the usual online sources or your local Harbor Freight if you’ve got any doubt about that. But “cheap” and “good” don’t always intersect ...

Walk into any modern maker hub and you will see printers weaving plastic, routers carving timber and lasers etching acrylic. These machines inspire creativity yet none of them can give you the raw ...

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 ...

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 ...

Engineering students at Easton Area High School know from experience that 3D printing can be a solution to problems but it’s not perfect. Because it prints in tiny layers, objects can take hours to be ...

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 ...

Although firmly entrenched in the cultural zeitgeist now, the skateboard wasn’t always a staple of popular culture. It had a pretty rocky start as surfers jankily attached roller skating hardware to ...

SPRING VALLEY – Since last year, students at Kingsland High School have been learning how to use a new machine some of them may come across in the workforce after graduation. With the help of the ...