I set out to create a perfectly engineered resin sphere on the lathe using wooden dowels and casting resin. But what started as a carefully planned experiment quickly turned into a series of ...

The emergence of 3D printed open-source lathes marks a significant milestone in the development of cost-effective machine tools. By ingeniously combining 3D printing technology with concrete casting ...

January 29, 2017 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google A lathe is an extremely cool tool, but it’s also a pretty intimidating machine. YouTuber I Like to Make Stuff ...

This week Elliot Williams was joined by fellow Europe-based Hackaday staffer Jenny List, to record the Hackaday Podcast as the dusk settled on a damp spring evening. On the agenda first was robotic ...

It might be time to put the 1980s cnc lathe project into the skip. It is a shame, as the basic lathe parts are of excellent quality (Photo right, lathe bed upside-down with the main ballscrew removed) ...

If you’re planning to make a metalworking lathe out of a CNC milling machine, you probably don’t expect getting a position sensor to work to be your biggest challenge. Nevertheless, this was [Anthony ...