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DIY Gender Trends

DIY Gender Trends

DIY Home Improvement and woodworking is pretty much a man’s world. Right? Nope. A pair of surveys show a surprising shift in who’s more likely to wear the tool belt in modern households. Ladies doing more DIY Bosch conducted a survey in Britain, France and Germany and discovered an increasing percentage of women are taking [...]

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3D Printers – DIY Custom Manufacturing

3D Printers – DIY Custom Manufacturing

Last week in Part 1, I explored the development of high quality 3D printers, already in widespread use by industrial designers. As with most technologies, the costs are starting to come down to the point where 3D printers are now entering the home user market, allowing you and me to create objects we never could [...]

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Stopcock Caulk

Stopcock Caulk

We put men on the moon in 1969, in a lunar landing module that I’m pretty sure had less onboard RAM than my 1986 Chevette, yet we’ve only just recently, achieved the technological breakthrough in caulking tube design, that can miraculously stop the caulk from continuing to ooze out of the tube, even after you [...]

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3-D Printers – The Ultimate DIY Tool

3-D Printers – The Ultimate DIY Tool

Just imagine, being able to scan an object, load it into your computer, and have a full-colour 3 dimensional copy of that object in your hand a few minutes later. If you’re thinking Star Trek "replicator", you’re pretty much on the money. When Gene Roddenberry opened our minds to these futuristic possibilities back in the [...]

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Planning and Patience

Planning and Patience

Two signs were stuck to the wall above my Dad’s desk at the family photography studio. One said: "The hurrier I go, the behinder I get". The other said…These signs not only reveal my Dad’s sense of humour, but added together, they sum up his influence on my philosophy of life and work. Whether by [...]

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