What do you do when a handmade electrical component becomes the bottleneck in your product? For this lighting rig designer, the answer was inventing his own mini punch press, using a 3D-printed die and a simple arbor press.
From hand-bending 32 finicky contact springs per order (and snapping half of them) to stamping out perfectly identical parts in minutes, this is the story of how DIY manufacturing hacks can compete with industrial processes, without the $$$ tooling bill.
⚡ The result? A satisfying click every time a fixture plugs in, and a workflow that’s 10x faster.
🔧 For makers, by a maker. Proving that sometimes the best solution is the one you build yourself.