Convection stoves and steel pot lids are a bad combination. The lid handles are solid steel — elegant, heat-conducting, unforgiving. After burning myself one too many times checking on a sauce, I decided the 3D printer was going to fix this. The concept was simple: a snug cap that slips over the existing knob and gives you something that doesn't conduct heat. PETG was the obvious material choice — PLA softens in warm environments, which is exactly the wrong property for somet

I want to be upfront, I went into this experiment with low expectations. Not because I doubt AI tools — I use them all the time — but because what I was trying to do felt like a weird edge case. I wanted to use Claude Code to write OpenSCAD, a programming language for building 3D objects in code. No drag-and-drop, no visual modeling. Just pure, parametric geometry defined in text. Would Claude even understand it well enough to be useful? Could I describe a physical object in

I may be building a Prusa Mendel, my Makerbot Thing-O-Matic is working full time on my projects. I just received an Aluminum Build...

Last week I received my Prusa Mendel 3D printer kit from Makergear. I started to build the kit yesterday and after 5 hours here what I...

I published a new thing on Thiniverse.com http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:13877 This thing is a quick release bicycle headlight using...

I posted these two barndoor mounts on Thiniverse a few days ago. One is manually operated while the other is motorized. Manual Stars...

Following the Open Hardware Summit I went to the Maker Faire World in New York city. This event was held in the same location as the OHS,...

When you make a project using an Arduino board, you often need a case to attach the Arduino onto your project. This small project is my...