Gary the squirrel is a tiny ground squirrel that lives in the backyard of our house in Joshua Tree. I decided to build a replica of the dining table I built when we moved in for him to eat off of.

Today on Modern Builds I'm creating a totally DIY, white concrete river coffee table with a no-weld steel base. Live edge ...

Sure is coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. But it can also be beautiful — drag a small ball through it in a controlled manner you can make some really pretty patterns ...

The basic mechanism is simple enough. The table uses a Cartesian motion platform to move a magnet underneath a table. On top of the table, a metal sphere attached to the magnet moves through craft ...