Few shop tools scream badassery quite like a good heat gun. From heating shrink wrap tubing to drying or removing paint, the unsuspecting heat gun can help you power through a wide range of tasks with little effort. But like all shop tools, no two are the same. Unlike many other heat guns on the market that only contain a HIGH or LOW-temperature setting, the Porter-Cable 1500-Watt Heat Gun features a variable temperature dial for getting that temp just right. So whether you’re bending plastic, removing adhesives, or even crisping the outer layer of a Porterhouse steak, there’s no shortage of tasks you can complete with a solid heat gun.…

Artists take many shapes and forms. A lot of contemporary visionaries nowadays use paint or photography to capture their in-the-moment experiences. And while taking photos of your dinner is technically considered art (is it?), it sure as hell doesn’t compare to what stone carver Anna Rubincam does for a living. https://vimeo.com/216658674 In a recent film documentary by Jack Webber and Tommaso Di Paola for their Eyes and Ears partnership, the duo take a closer look at the painstaking process of stone carving. Over the course of nine minutes, Anna takes viewers through a mesmerizing, step-by-step process on how to create a beautiful bust from a human face. She starts off…

I don’t know what you do with all your all CPU towers. Me? Oh, I’ve made a throne. Think Iron Throne, but with CPUs. However, I made a bet with a 105 year old hermit selling cabbages near the park, that 2017 is the year when the traditionally large, bulky multi-bay, power-pumping CPU tower would shrink to the size of a pickle. He didn’t believe me and charged me twice as much for that cabbage, but with Lenovo’s latest entry into the ThinkStation P-Series family, I’ve proved that old man wrong. ThinkStation P320 Tiny Overview The ThinkStation P320 Tiny SFF Workstation packs a great combo of power you’d find across the…

Toys and weapons these days are just too expensive. Gone are the times when kids could be content with a good slingshot and rock. Now every adolescent and their mother is obsessed with fidget spinners – pieces of metal and plastic that look like miniature propellers. *Indistinct dry-heaving sound* They don’t even do anything other than scar people and choke children (look it up). Thankfully, our good friend Jörg Sprave shows how to create a cheaper, deadlier and, most importantly, more entertaining way to distract/maim yourself. The German YouTuber may look like a hermit who lives alone in a forest peppered with his own homemade contraptions, but in reality he’s…

It’s wasn’t that we were so small. It’s that they were so big. Towering over the blades of grass, gripping two sticks to catapult themselves off their one leg, propelling themselves along the dry, winding path. To get to the border, this is what we had to capture, but it was going to take a lot of rope. A lot of rope and these links. Lownine – Bipedal bots admiring flowers, patrolling ships, and cities atop strange twisted mountains are just a few of the journeys in this Osaka Concept Artist’s art. The World in Faces – Imagine travelling the world capturing culture in the faces of indigenous people. That’s…

Canada-based Mosaic Manufacturing announced a new version of their Palette multimaterial accessory, the Palette+. If you’re not familiar with the Palette concept, it is a very unusual approach to achieving multimaterial 3D printing on almost any open materials desktop 3D printer. Imagine this: a multicolor print is simply a long series of filament swaps, from one color (or material) to another. Each 3D printed layer is a mix of these materials, with the filament changing at just the right moment in the movements of the extruder. Here’s how it works. Their system analyzes a 3D model to determine the precise moments when a filament swap is required, and then produces…