Cardboard boxes are not water-resistant ... Get expert home tips, DIY guides, and design inspiration by signing up to the House Digest newsletter! Read the original article on House Digest.

[James Coleman], [Nadya Peek], and [Ilan Moyer] of MIT Media Labs have cooked up a modular cardboard CNC that gives you the backbone from which you can design your own machine. The CNC build ...

No matter your lifestyle, almost everyone has to manage an overflow of cardboard boxes at some point ... What's great about this design is that you can customize it in several ways.

His templates for the machine are extremely well thought-out; the main frame is a torsion box design, and the ways and slides are intricate affairs. Non-cardboard parts include threaded rod for ...