Machine automation isn’t a recent idea. In the 1800s, cam-driven automatic lathes and screw machines were created. In the first half of the 1900s, manufacturing equipment began to use numeric control ...

Watch how a small CNC machine transforms simple wood blocks into detailed, polished artwork. The TTC450 Pro handles carving, ...

Editor's Note: An updated version of this information can be found here. What exactly is computer-numerical-controlled (CNC) machining? It’s a means to make parts by removing material via high-speed, ...

An email from a reader implied the question of whether anyone who continues to use manual machine tools is making money. The author, Jim Ream, owner of QMS Inc. in Glasgow, Ky., has a six-man job shop ...

[David] has created a four cable drawing machine for the Telus Spark Science Centre in Canada. Hackaday has featured [David’s] unconventional drawing contraptions before, specifically his center pivot ...

[joekutz] made an impulse purchase of a CNC machine. It was a 3040 CNC that looked reasonably complete and had an attractive price, what could possibly go wrong? As it happens, [joekutz] really didn’t ...