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Tardigrade are interesting creatures. They are tiny (~ 1 millimeter long), eight-legged animals that live in...
Introduction How would you or anyone you know like to generate their own electricity? How...
With a few household items and a trip to the hardware store, you can whip...
In the spring of 1654, German scientist Otto von Guericke staged a dramatic demonstration of...
When you picture a steam engine, you likely imagine a giant cast-iron contraption festooned with...
Microorganisms often get a bad name because some of them cause disease. But many have...
Planetary Resources Inc.(PRI), an asteroid mining company backed by tech heavyweights such as Sergey Brin...
What I'm doing now is looking for sonic richness with bacterial activity Mexico City-based artist...
Stephen Richardson of Tangent Audio built the AZIZ light ring for his Bausch & Lomb...
Cristos Vasilas added a Raspberry Pi with camera board to his telescope, and took great...
In 1969, the world's imagination was sparked when the Saturn V rocket launched the crew...
For the last several years I've experimented with turning common HDPE plastic bags into solid...
I've always been a huge fan of the legendary 1979 Joy Division record, Unknown Pleasures,...
Our friends at WGBH's Design Squad Nation have come up with a great line up...
Combine an ECG headset with an Arduino to control paramecia! Paramecia display a behaviour known...
Remember a while back there was a mild hubbub about whether a wind-powered vehicle could...
There's something magical about going to your first Maker Faire. It's exciting, wonderful and, often...
In the midst of the current 17-year cicada emergence here on the East Coast, the...
John Cumbers and a team of synthetic biologists are offering a one-day course on the...
One of the most ambitious (and controversial) projects to explode on Kickstarter recently has been...
This cool mapping system created by MIT uses a Kinect motion tracker, a laser range...
From the Museum of Mathematics The Math Mondays Experimental Making Labs recently received numerous binder...
Founded in 1989 by a handful of dedicated "pyros," the Western Pyrotechnics Association is a...
Tardigrade are interesting creatures. They are tiny (~ 1 millimeter long), eight-legged animals that live in...
If fire wasn't the first thing invented, it was probably the second. The human race...
Making use of shape memory polyurethane (SMPU) designer Carl de Smet and his team at Noumenon in Antwerpen, Belgium...
Oakland resident Douglas Smith has a degree in architecture from UC Berkeley, and works as...
Actually, it's less than three weeks until Maker Faire Bay Area! Who's feeling prepared? Now's...
The egg is a near perfect food. It's packed with protein, vitamins, and minerals. It...
Marco Robustini wanted to test the accuracy of the ArduCopter code. So he decided to suspend...
The lever is one of the six classic simple machines. A simple machine is a...
Archimedes said, “Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move...
Expatriate hacker Chris "Akiba" Wang of Tokyo recently participated in a cool opportunity to deploy...
Super Awesome Sylvia is one of our favorite young makers here at MAKE. Her passion...
Interesting Instructable from Dr. Patrik D'haeseleer, Harvard-trained computational biologist and denizen of Sunnyvale biotech hackerspace...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mqu-QPH3dg Sculptor George W. Hart recently designed and constructed two five-fold symmetrical sculptures with his...
Complete instructions for this Weekend Projects can be found at http://makeprojects.com/Project/Solar-Joule-Bracelet/22/1 The Solar Joule Bracelet combines two separate projects, a...
Make a flashlight whose energy source is light....
Introduction How would you or anyone you know...
Remember a while back there was a mild hubbub about whether a wind-powered vehicle could...
Ford is working with MAKE to profile owners of the Transit Connect, a vehicle that...
Twig stoves are handy and eco-friendly — you don't haul fossil fuel, you just collect...
Twig stoves are handy and eco-friendly — you don't haul fossil fuel, you just collect...
I was just hanging out at Al Lasher's Electronics in Berkeley when the proprietor Bob...
While not terribly practical for outputting large amounts of electricity, this "gravity battery" demonstrated by...
This fun instructable by egbertfitzwilly shows how to make a microbial fuel cell out of...
Introduction How would you or anyone you know...
A recent toe injury kept me from running...
This is really cool, a MakerBot Industries-supported 3D printable prosthetic hand project. When Richard Van...
File this one under DIY medical care. Whether you lack medical insurance, spend time out...
Today on Food Makers, a Google+ hangout on air at 2pm PST/5Pm EST, I'll be...
Lima's University of Engineering & Technology (UTEC) recently erected this water-producing billboard along the Panamericana...
Dave Vondle and Jerry O'Leary are making the world's thinnest watch. I've enjoyed watching this...
There's been a lot of talk about the pollution problem in Beijing lately. Last month,...
If you've ever been backpacking, you know that every little object you bring has to...
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