While most animated machines we deal with every day – everything from clocks to cars to computers – are made of metal, there is an art to creating automated objects out of wood. [Dug North] is a ...

Alan Parekh of Hacked Gadgets has created an industrial-looking clock from wooden gears, a PIC microcontroller, and a scavenged stepper motor. This unique project blends traditional woodworking with ...

George A. Bruno’s later life has been a marriage of art and machine precision. Since he retired at age 58 from work as a machine designer and foundry engineer, Bruno has been making and restoring ...

The combination of time-lapse photography and slow camera panning can be quite hypnotic – think of those cool sunset to nightfall shots where the camera slowly pans across a cityscape with car lights ...

Here is another fun homemade iPhone dock for today, the Wooden Automata iPhone Dock. The Wooden Automata iPhone Dock uses a hand crank system to switch the iPhone from landscape to portrait mode, ...

As tech and design have advanced, we’ve developed more and more products made from plastics and other artificial composites. From a business standpoint they make sense — they’re easy to manufacture, ...

Discover a range of creative DIY projects that transform everyday materials into functional mechanical devices and unique items. Watch as a wooden gear shifter mechanism demonstrates the principles of ...

Clockmaker James Borden and his sculptural wooden timekeepers make a compelling argument for the humanities. The Iowa-based craftsman attended Dana College, a small liberal arts school in Blair, ...