How do hardware geeks carve pumpkins? With giant home made CNC mills, that’s how. Using the open source CNC kit from Lumenlab.com, they converted a photograph into g-code, then fed it to the machine.

When you have a CNC mill sitting around, it almost seems anachronistic to pull out a kitchen knife to carve a pumpkin. You can hardly blame [Nathan Bentall] for choosing an endmill instead. If you’re ...

What better way to get young people interested in manufacturing than to pop a pumpkin in a $180,000 tool and die machine and carve a 3D version of Frankenstein? The CNC vertical mill that usually ...