Plasma is superheated, compressed air that ionizes to form a conductive gas. This gas conducts electricity from the torch of the plasma cutter to the work piece, through a electrode and copper nozzle ...

Behold the awesome glory of the plasma cutter. These torches create electrically conductive jets of hot plasma that will cut through just about any conductive material, from steel to to brass. In the ...

If you've built a custom classic truck, chances are you've had to deal with cutting metal-it may have been removing or modifying something old or installing something new. And, if you're like most ...

Walk into any modern maker hub and you will see printers weaving plastic, routers carving timber and lasers etching acrylic. These machines inspire creativity yet none of them can give you the raw ...

A plasma cutter looks similar to an arc welder, but instead of joining metals, the job here is to cut through them quickly and accurately. We’ve been looking at the technical aspects so we can help ...

Wookiepedia, the Star Wars Wiki, says that lightsabers have no feel because the "blade" has no weight. All the heft is in the hilt. That means a lightsaber-wielder has no definitive sense of the light ...

Plasma cutting uses hot jets of plasma to cut through a wide array of materials, especially those that are electrically conductive. With a watermelon or a steak, the results are a little less reliable ...

What do you get when you combine an arc cigarette lighter and some scrap glass and metal? [NightHawkInLight] created a simple plasma cutter project along with some hot glue and a few simple tools. If ...

If you are a Maker space or individual lucky enough to own a Plasma Cutter, this electric protractor compass could be handy. The folks over at [MakeItExtreme] built this circle cutting tool to help ...