Laser cutting, engraving, 3D printing, pen relief and filament care — the guides, the tools, the bench cards and a wall of real builds. All free.
Fresh at the bench
Cards that earn their tape, the never-cut trainer, the words with their sources — nothing here is for sale.
Print & cut: the drying card, the never-cut card, the kerf card, the energy card, the quote card — tape them where you work.
The trainer: thirty real materials, one call each — the app's never-cut list, with the tricky rows that teach the most.
Kerf, luma, J/mm, M², the ID-1 ruler — 34 terms, one line and one source each.
Ten squares, one number — measure the beam's share, bake it into your files, let the printed gauge pick the clearance.
The shelf
Cutting, engraving, printing, pens, drying — each shelf carries its math. The apps pack all of it: quotes, drying alarms and the pen's lessons, offline, no account.
The first cut's settings, the never-cut list, kerf and the fit gauge, nesting on the real bed.
🎯Photos by interval and dither — the four kernels by name, the presets honest about being starts.
🖨️The drying table, the spool's metres left, first-print basics — the app's own figures.
🖊️Beads, lanes, infill, tack-downs — the app's lesson words, then your first piece.
💦The wet-filament hiss, the presets' table, bag-it-warm advice — the values the alarms run.
Long-form, sourced from the apps' tested tables — every number names where it came from.
The makers' own starting tables, the J/mm energy rule and its fire caution, the never-cut list.
Read the guide →The ten-squares measure, the LightBurn offset, the printed fit gauge that picks clearance.
Read the guide →The odd-fingers rule, clearance as c/4 per boundary, two lid styles with sourced play.
Read the guide →The twist math — 3 mm sheet, 90°, 23 links — and the lattice with honesty labels.
Read the guide →Interval as DPI, the four dither kernels by name, the per-material starting presets.
Read the guide →An ID card as the ruler, the four-corner bed map, and the app's honesty about photo error.
Read the guide →What's here
Calculators, print cards, video shelves, guides for the parts that go wrong. All free.
The quote's equations, the kerf measure, the drying table, the spool's metres — right in the browser, no account.
Channel-surf the real builds, and drill the never-cut list until it's reflex.
Guides, the glossary with its sources, and the bench cards to print.
One line when a card, guide or calculator lands. Mail volume: machines-speed — slow.
Building with the apps? The machines' apps work offline, no account.
The bench family
The machines sit with the handcrafts: chart the beads, weave the band, ferment the jar — then cut it for real.
Patterns for eleven bead crafts — charts at true bead size, shopping lists with codes.
🧶Tablet weaving, inkle, macramé, alphas and rugs — real drafts, plus the DMC spectrum.
🎭The costume workshop: masks, props, LEDs, and the cues that bring them alive.
🫙Ferments, brews, chocolate and dye — every percentage names its base.
🌍The live Earth on a desk globe — cloud data and the day/night terminator.
🫧The slime site that started the family style — recipes, games, the curriculum.