Ikea's great and all, but it's expensive, and it's just flat-packed stuff at the end of the day. You also have to fit to Ikea's set dimensions, and configurations, but what if you could make things as big or as small as you liked? Customise your flat-packed furniture, get it made and shipped directly to you. That's the premise behind Fabsie, the CNC-powered 3D-cutting furniture site, where you'll be able to order almost anything you like. Read More >>
Featured comment by mcbennett:
"Firstly, IKEA has many products that are ridiculously cheap, and then they have the rest of stuff that is better quality but higher priced. You see a ..." More »
The days of the assembly line as Henry Ford envisioned it are fading, as manual labour is replaced by mechanical. In fact, tomorrow's factory floors could be covered with gigantic 5-axis CNC machines like this one. Read More >>
Today's conventional polyurethane foam surfboards are lightweight, strong, and maneuverable. But that comes at the cost of a more jarring ride in rough seas—not to mention PU isn't exactly an environmentally-friendly material. So New Zealander Mike Grobelny is taking carving back to its roots with a CNC-milled, hollow wood board. Read More >>
Taking just four weeks; a computer; a CNC printer, and a whole lot of plywood, a couple of Danish architects, Frederik Agdrup and Nicholas Bjorndal, printed this awesome house and built it with their bare hands, plus a lot of imagination and some impressive design skills. Read More >>
Featured comment by Darrell Jones:
"Yes, I thought that. "CNC Mill your own house" doesn't flow off the tongue so easily, but it's more accurate." More »