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The staff at MAKE has teamed with Design Squad to select a sampling of projects from the pages of MAKE Magazine. These projects were chosen for their appropriateness for the Design Squad audience and are made available free of charge by MAKE Magazine for the enjoyment of students as well as their teachers, parents and mentors.
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In the meantime, we hope you enjoy these projects!
Make it Go
Make your own blimp for about a dollar.
1-2-3: Das Bottle Dive! Dive! Dive!
Make a Mini-Motor Turn electricity into motion with just a couple of safety pins, a battery, a magnet, and some insulated copper wire.
Build a Nocturnal Robot using paper clips, guitar strings, rubber bands, heat-shrink tubing and your imagination.
Fly an Ornithopter Build a rubber-band powered bird-like aircraft with wood, wire, tissue and glue.
Make a Frankenmouse Transform a mild-mannered computer mouse into a rolling robot.
Make it Launch
How Toons: Mini-marshmallow Gun The Make marshmallow shooter. Kids all-time favorite Make project!
Make it Stop
Capture motion with a homemade strobe from a modified disposable camera.
Make it Bright
Make Light Dance Bend light through a water stream using a flashlight, shoe box, soda bottle, and duct tape.
Make it Sing
Make a cup into a speaker and microphone with some insulated wire, a cup, an earphone plug, and a magnet.
Make a turkey baster into a flute just add water (and some rubber bands)
Make a Cigar Box into a Guitar with a cigar box, twine, wood, screws, bolts.
Make it Tall
Build a Tower to the Sky Make a kinetic sculpture using dowels held in place by the tension of plastic cords.
Make it for Lunch
Make your own ice cream in zip-lock bags
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