From Farm Shop to High-Tech Powerhouse: A Blueprint for Rapid CNC Scaling

Modern Applications News – Metalworking Ideas For Today's Job Shop: Every Friday through Sunday in Wichita, Kansas, there's a distinctive location in the city where employees have left the building, the lights are out, but spindles hum nonstop, producing parts to exact spec, all weekend long. This is all made possible by one company's vision to take its manufacturing capabilities to the next level through technology.

Get Custom CNC Milled Parts in Your Hands in Just Four Days

Modern Applications News – Metalworking Ideas For Today's Job Shop: MISUMI Group's meviy is rewriting the "lead time" timeline with a major upgrade to its Expedite+ service, slashing CNC milling delivery to as few as four days. For engineers and job shops facing last-minute design shifts or broken production lines, this level of speed is a massive competitive advantage.

Makera Carvera Air Makes Milling a Breeze

Make:: Matt Stultz reviewed the middle of Makera’s lineup, the Carvera Air, when it first came out in 2024. Since then we’ve spent some time on a production machine and come to appreciate even more what Makera has done to make CNC milling easier.

Fusion Community Spotlight: From Traditional Machinist to Modern Shop – Adam Booth’s Fusion CNC Journey

Fusion Blog: Adam Booth here, though some of you may know me online as Abom79. I’m a third‑generation machinist based in Pensacola, Florida, and the owner of a small but mighty job shop where old‑school manual machining and modern CNC live under the same roof. My work today combines repair and job‑shop projects, CNC production, product development, and educational content

ARDIS to demo all-in-one software platform at WMS 2025

Woodworking Network: ARDIS offers a software platform designed specifically for the woodworking and interior manufacturing industries. Its suite connects and optimizes every step of production — from planning and inventory to machining and finishing — giving manufacturers complete visibility and control. The system combines advanced panel optimization, smart inventory management for panels and offcuts, seamless machine integration across mixed brands, and full control visibility and control over production.

Open Source CAM Software In The Browser

Hackaday: 3D printers, desktop CNC mills/routers, and laser cutters have made a massive difference in the level of projects the average hacker can tackle. Of course, these machines would never have seen this level of adoption if you had to manually write G-code, so CAM software had a big part to play.

Cricut Joy Review: a Hobbyist's Dream, But Can Be Pricey

gizmodo.com: Arriving just in time for nearly the entire world to find itself stuck at home with lots of free time, Cricut has introduced a cheaper, smaller version of its automated cutting machines that promises to improve your crafty creations. The new Cricut Joy makes a powerful machine relatively affordable, but like a decent home printer, the cost of materials will quickly add up the more you use it.

Plasma Cutter + Sharpie Is Surprisingly Useful

Hackaday: What we want is a Star Trek-style replicator. What we have are a bunch of different machines that can spew out various 2D and 3D shapes. For the foreseeable future, you’ll still need to post-process most of what you build in some way. [Stuff Made Here] had a challenge. He often uses his plasma cutter to create complex sheet metal items. But the cutter is two dimensional so the piece doesn’t look right until you bend it at just the right places.

Speeds and Feeds for New CNC Machinists

Fusion 360 Blog: Feeds and speeds: they can make or break a job, and usually a tool or two. When dialed in properly, the right settings can lead to increased material removal rates, a surface finish that meets requirements without hand work, and increased tool longevity. So what’s the magic sauce to figure out your perfect feeds and speeds? Let us know if you find out.

A CNC Woodworking Tool That Does The Hard Parts

Hackaday: Drawn along in the wake of the 3d printing/home shop revolution has been the accessibility of traditional subtractive CNC equipment, especially routers and mills. Speaking of, want a desktop mill? Try a Bantam Tools (née Othermachine) Desktop Milling Machine or a Carvey or a Carbide 3D Nomad. Tiny but many-axis general purpose mill? Maybe a Pocket NC. Router for the shop? Perhaps a Shapeoko, or an X-Carve, or a ShopBot, or a… you get the picture. The MatchSticks device is a CNC tool for the shop and it might be classified as a milling machine, but it doesn’t quite work the way a more traditional machine tool does. It computer controls the woodworker too.

Super-Blue CNC Part Fixturing

Hackaday: Simple clamps are great if you need to keep the pressure on two parallel surfaces, but if you have an irregular plane, or you need to cut through it, clamps are not the correct tool. The folks at [NYC CNC] feature a video with a clever hack borrowing from other disciplines. Painters tape is applied to the top of a level mounting surface in the machine and then burnished. The same is done to the bottom of the workpiece. Superglue is drizzled between the tape layers and pressed together so now the stock is held firmly below the toolhead.

CNC Milling is More Manual Than You Think

Hackaday: I was in Pasadena CA for the Hackaday Superconference, and got to spend some quality time at the Supplyframe Design Lab. Resident Engineer Dan Hienzsch said I could have a few hours, and asked me what I wanted to make. The constraints were that it had to be small enough to fit into checked luggage, but had to be cool enough to warrant taking up Dan’s time, with bonus points for me learning some new skills. I have a decent wood shop at home, and while my 3D printer farm isn’t as pro as the Design Lab’s, I know the ropes. This left one obvious choice: something Jolly Wrencher on the industrial Tormach three-axis CNC metal mill.

Fusion 360 Adds “Slicer” for Laser Cutting and CNC Routing

makezine.com: When Autodesk recently announced they were going to be discontinuing the 123D app, many of us were pretty bummed. As it turns out, that app had a fantastic ability to “slice” objects into layers for cutting with a laser, router, or mill. They’ve added a “slicer” app, packed with features to fill that void left behind by the closing of 123D. This new announcement for Fusion 360 is music to our ears.

Micro-Mark LaserKnife, a Less Expensive Laser Cutter

toolguyd.com: Micro-Mark, a small tool and hobbyist supply specialty retailer, has come out with the LaserKnife, a table-top laser cutter and engraver that can be used on wood, plastic, cloth, foam, cardboard, paper, and other such materials.

ripper – the different CNC

MAXMALI.COM: ripper is the most versatile hobby CNC ever developed. The 3-Axis CNC was not designed for a specific application – ripper fusions the needs required for fast shape-cutting in wood/PVC and the strength and stiffness required for milling in aluminum and copper. It brings the precision down to fractions of the human hair – and can be build using simple tools! And all that at a cost which puts commercial available CNCs in this price-segment back to the kindergarten.