CNC

The X1 Pro laser welder isn't just for pros. It's so easy to use even a beginner can start laying perfect beads in no time. It doesn't just weld either, it also takes off rust and slices through metal like butter.

Chinese architectural firm Partyfriendship Studio has constructed a unique workshop space using CNC panels, where the individuals can freely design and build their own furniture creations without the need for traditional tools, nails, or adhesives.

For the mass-production of mountain bikes, welded aluminum frames make a lot of sense. The Psalm 150 full-suspension frame is designed with a different philosophy in mind, however, as it's made of bonded sections of CNC-machined solid aluminum.

The Meltio Engine giveth, and it taketh away. It's a production-grade manufacturing system that attaches to any CNC machine or robot arm, and it allows you to add metal through laser deposition, and then shape and refine it through CNC in one step.

Aluminum bicycle frames are usually made of lengths of tubing, joined together at the ends by welds. The CNC eFanes electric mountain bike is different, though, in that its frame is milled from solid aluminum … and it costs €15,999.90 (US$18,630).

With their big ugly welds, aluminum-framed mountain bikes generally aren't as pretty as their carbon fiber or titanium counterparts. That said, the German-made Frace F160 is a huge exception, as its frame is milled from a solid block of aluminum.

A team of post-graduate students from London's Bartlett School of Architecture’s Design Computation Lab has created a modular home office to promote its automated architecture project, which involves the use of robotic fabrication.

Mooz is aiming to fill in the gap between cheap, flimsy home 3D printers and expensive industrial gear with a modular all-in-one design offering interchangeable heads providing the ability to easily switch between multicolor 3D printing, CNC carving and laser engraving modules.​

Following in the footsteps of recent desktop CNC machines like Carvey and X-Carve, the Tormach PCNC 440 mill is designed to fit on benchtops and lower the barrier of entry to real CNC.

3D printing promises to be the gateway to a world where a person's ideas are made manifest. But it's not perfect – materials issues and questions of finish quality arise. Enter X-Carve, a device aimed at the maker market allowing the home-based enthusiast to work in more than just extruded plastic.

3D printers are very limited to the materials that they can use. Carvey takes a different approach. It's a desktop mounted, rapid-modelling, 3D carving device that can sculpt wood, plastic, and metal into almost any object that you care to design.

The FABtotum hybrid fabrication machine combines popular technologies to to let users 3D print, 3D scan, mill and cut in one small, elegant open-source device.