Our old math teacher famously said, “You have to take what you know and use it find what you don’t know.” The same holds true for a lot of microcontroller designs including [rgco’s] clever metal ...

Do you want to make your own springs? Yeah, that’s what we thought. Well, blow the dust off of that spare Arduino and keep reading. A few months ago, we let you know that renowned circuit sculptor ...

YouTube channel How To Mechatronics has created a great tutorial with full instructions on how to create your very own Arduino powered 3D wire bending machine. Created using 3D printer parts, a ...

All I can say is that I am really, really tempted to build one of these little beauties and then spend a happy few weeks bending furiously It’s funny how sometimes you don’t know that you want ...

Electric Paint is an electrically conductive liquid wire, which can be used as a cold-soldering medium or conductive adhesive. Non-toxic, solvent-free, and water-soluble it can be used for prototyping ...

Jealous of your Nexus S-owning friends and their fancy NFC chips after yesterday's Google Wallet announcement? Well tech tinkerer Joe Desbonnet has whipped up what he dubs "poor man's NFC" using an ...

Jiri Praus has created an Arduino-powered CNC machine that can precisely bend brass wire, and even features a set of rollers to help straighten the wire before any precision bends are made. This ...

*I wish I had one of these gizmo, although (a) the feeder system doesn't actually work and (b) I could probably bend wire by hand 50 times faster and cheaper. But not with such software-driven ...