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Currently Playing: Handheld CNC router repairs old CNC machine

I show how to use a handheld CNC router, the Shaper Origin, to make aluminum parts for my CNC mill. http://www.shapertools.com Shaft encoder: http://www.cui.com/product/components/encoders/incremental/modular/amt11-series

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3D-printed, alcohol-powered, Einstein-Szilard absorption refrigerator
Drawing electricity from this sodium-water reactor prevents it from exploding (in theory)
See inside insects with an electron microscope and a femtosecond laser
Atomic Force Microscope high-speed video, selective stainless steel etching, bacteria, and more
Acoustic Radiometer spins in 130dB sound, clockwise and counter-clockwise depending on sound pattern
Optical diffraction patterns and almost-holograms made with a MOPA laser engraving machine
X-ray backscatter with compressed sensing algorithm
Iron nitride permanent magnets made with DIY ball mill and tested with DIY magnetometer
Welding visualization system uses intense pulsed lighting to outshine electric arc, laser cutter
Dramatically improve microscope resolution with an LED array and Fourier Ptychography
f/0.38 camera lens made with oil immersion microscope objective
Mutarotation: a sugar that spontaneously changes from sweet to bitter
Micronics SLS nylon 3D printer makes electronic circuits
Photosynthesis photography: Making images with living plant leaves
Measuring the amount of lead (Pb) consumed when drinking from lead crystal glassware. Is it safe?
Multi-layer reactive foil: no fuel, no oxygen, tons of heat
Temperature-sensing RFID tag in magnetic stir bar
Identify chemicals with radio frequencies - Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (MRI without magnets)
How to make precise sheet metal parts (photochemical machining)
High speed X-ray video: jumping beans, wind-up toys and more!
Drawing on a plasma display with a laser pointer
Silver nanoprisms grown into structural colors by high power LEDs
Olestra (zero calorie cooking oil) - chemical synthesis and taste test
X-ray timelapse of fluid movement in plants, stop-motion animation, sensor teardown/repair
Underwater laser cutting and silver sintering to make ceramic circuit boards
Atomic Layer Deposition of copper - If you like sputtering, you'll love this!
The best projects from 10 years of Applied Science
Measuring human digestive efficiency vs. a flame
Prototyping with Applied Science: Design and build a bite sensor
Etching silicon wafers to make colorful Rugate optical filters (porous silicon)
Shooting an electron beam through air
Ultrasonic soldering bonds glass, titanium, stainless steel, ceramics, tungsten, nichrome...
Demo and teardown of an X-ray fluorescence gun (measures chemical composition)
Giant glass diffusion pump and cathode ray tube demo
Holograms on chocolate
Hypercentric optics: A camera lens that can see behind objects
Alpha radiation makes sparks, detects smoke, and eliminates static cling
Antique 4x5 camera creates 20 micron photolithography masks: Super tiny tax form
Electron microscope animation: Carbon nanotubes pulled into thread
Details in the process of making "blacker than vantablack" coatings (part 1?)
Make vacuum pre-loaded spherical air bearings without special tools
DIY mass spectrometer measures potassium in dietary salt substitute
How a film camera superimposes the date onto photos
Cryogenic treatment of drill bits: tested 2X lifetime and microstructure analysis
UV laser creates disappearing ink in normal printer paper
"Bouncy" sulfur hexafluoride gas in tennis balls?
How corrosion inhibitors protect metal: synthesis in the lab and testing
Build an electroluminescent glass panel display -- an Apollo DSKY
Drill through anything (conductive) with Electrical Discharge Machining
Electro-osmosis: pumping water with electricity and no magnets
Testing UV absorption eyewear and sunscreen with a deuterium light source
High-resolution screen printing demystified
Behind the scenes at Applied Science: Why video? Camera gear. Shop tour.
Laser diode self-mixing: Range-finding and sub-micron vibration measurement
Electroluminescent paint and multi-channel control circuit
MEMs oscillator sensitivity to helium (helium kills iPhones)
Dry water and Burning ice: all about gas hydrates
Make plastic printed circuits with a standard laser cutter
Vintage electrical tech - Weston Sensitrol Relay
Engineering magnetics -- practical introduction to BH curve
Candle flame is repelled by magnets (and Zeeman follow-up)
Zeeman Effect - Control light with magnetic fields
3D print your brain, timelapse, high-res microfluidics, custom colors...
Glowing plasma created by a high speed jet of water
Making YBCO superconductor
Flashing Light Prize 2018 - Sunscreen, UV, and neon
Gas-powered waterjet cutter (follow-up) and other project updates
Glass engineering - designing and making photochromic glass
E-paper hacking: fastest possible refresh rate
World's smallest lightbulb flasher? Flashing Light Prize 2017
Waterjet cutter built with a cheap pressure washer
Tesla CAN bus data logging
Camera movement and dolly zoom with Chronos high-speed camera
"Bullet Time" with the Chronos high-speed camera
AM transmitter for antique radios and other project updates
A refrigerator that works by stretching rubber bands
Heat-sensitive 3D paper (swell paper)
Handheld CNC router repairs old CNC machine
Piezoelectric motor
Design and build a spin coater
Making DIY gecko tape - work in progress
How anti-theft tags work - magnetostriction
Your toothbrush is worn-out!
Ruby laser (and other projects) follow-up
How to choose a cleaning solution
Electron microscope image capture via microcontroller (with drill bit animation)
Control light with heat and magnets (Magneto-optical Kerr effect)
Control light with magnets and olive oil?! (Faraday effect)
Liquid Nitrogen Generator - Overview
Tools and Tips #2 from Applied Science
Electron microscope slow-motion video of vinyl LP
The physics of floating screwdrivers
Shrinking paper money with ammonia
Extreme wood bending with ammonia
Distilling pure anhydrous ammonia
Magnetic Propulsion
How Digital Light Processing (DLP) works
Review of National Instruments VirtualBench
The science of wineglass tears (or wine legs)
Tools and Tips #1 from Applied Science