Made on Earth
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Want robots to be musical, creative, and expressive? Better brush up on your engineering.
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The five designers of Aquaduct were thinking of creating access to clean water for everyone.
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Want someone to know how many times you applied deodorant today? Neither do the creators of Zero Privacy.
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After five ratchet-welding years, Liz Cohen has created a lawnmower that becomes an El Camino.
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Bill LeMaster built the Flintstone car for his grandkids' Halloween costume.
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Scott Wade wanted to do better than write "Wash Me" in the dust of dirty cars... so he drew caricatures.
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Welcome
When you create something amazing, it makes sense to honor it with physical appeal, too.
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Make Free
» Too Much Time on My Hands
by Cory Doctorow
All creative endeavor begins with just fooling around. Enjoy it.
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Making Trouble
Reusing and energy consumption have been consuming Saul Griffith's thoughts.
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Proto
» Timothy and the Chocolate Factory
by David Pescovitz
How a space shuttle technologist and the founder of Wired magazine hacked together a homebrew chocolate lab.
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Artist Michael Townsend and his wife Adriana Yoto lived in a mall, rent free, for four years.
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Teams compete to win the U.S. military's $2 million grand prize.
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» Flying School Automaton
by Annie Buckley
Technology-loving artist Diane Landry discusses her background, her inspiration, and how kids respond to kinetic sculpture.
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Twenty-five teams, 1 box of parts, 4 hours, winner takes all -- welcome to the 2008 XD Design Build Prize.
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» Pushing the Performance Envelope
by Michael Betancourt
Mary Hallock-Greenewalt was a musician, engineer, inventor ... and exceptional.
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Build your own stereo video camera and 3D viewer.
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Make a classic optics toy from an old CD case.
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This classic illusion makes objects - and hobbits - seem to change size.
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A webcam's image chip is an ultrafine shadow-imaging stage.
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Make a glittering LED constellation jammed in resin - with no soldering!
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Build your own opaque projector.
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Mod a flatbed scanner to take photos that decontruct time and motion.
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Upload
Turn your desktop computer into a musical instrument.
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When you want to put up your own website, how free can a freebie be?
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Once upon a time, photographers took pictures on a delicate, wonky medium called "film", which was plagued with defects such as dust, scratched negatives, grain, and colors that faded with time.
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With wireless cameras on board, these radio-controlled racers give you virtual reality telepresence.
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Make a simple mechanism that stretches delicious candy while it stretches the limits of multidimensional math.
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Re-create a mid-1970s video trip by plugging this box into any TV and audio source. Beneath the fake wood paneling, a Propeller microcontroller simulates Atari's classic music visualizer.
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Make Money
Sometimes it costs more to buy it than to make it from the money itself.
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DIY: Circuits
XBee radios track every hit in roller derby action!
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Make an easy LED headlight from a garden hose adapter.
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Infernal noisemaker turns pals into enemies.
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DIY: Science
Device identifies dangerous liquids by analyzing light.
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DIY: Spy
This dollar store DIY spy mic lets you listen from afar.
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Record what you see and hear with these low-cost stealthy sunglasses.
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DIY: Music
» The Machinist's Phonograph
by Royston Maybery
This time-tripping player handles all cylinder record formats.
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» Wii Will Rock You
by Bill Byrne
Play real air guitar (or keys) with the wireless game remote.
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DIY: Kitchen
Spherify your food for a new culinary experience.
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DIY: Vehicles
A Honda Rebel 250 motorcycle goes electric.
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Art Work
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Personal Fab
Build one platform, and you can experiment with everything from cookie dough to laser sintering.
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Skill Builder
How to use solar panels to supplement your home or workshop electricity needs.
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Howtoons
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MakeShift
The creator of MacGyver challenges you to signal for help from an isolated laundry room while three burly men wait to attack.
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Reader Input
» Reader Input
Where makers tell their tales and offer praise, brickbats, and swell ideas.
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Aha!
MAKE's favorite puzzles.
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Toolbox
Go cuckoo for coconuts, munch on the ultimate brain food, turn day into night, and build your own greenhouse.
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Maker's Calendar
Our favorite events from around the world.
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Homebrew
Imagine a camera that captures the shapes of things, and a printer that prints out those shapes.
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