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Make it Go

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Make your own blimp
for about a dollar.


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1-2-3: Das Bottle
Dive! Dive! Dive!


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Make a Mini-Motor
Turn electricity into motion with just a couple of safety pins, a battery, a magnet, and some insulated copper wire.


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Build a Nocturnal Robot
using paper clips, guitar strings, rubber bands, heat-shrink tubing and your imagination.


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Fly an Ornithopter
Build a rubber-band powered bird-like aircraft with wood, wire, tissue and glue.


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Make a Frankenmouse
Transform a mild-mannered computer mouse into a rolling robot.



Make it Launch

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How Toons: Mini-marshmallow Gun
The Make marshmallow shooter. Kids all-time favorite Make project!



Make it Stop

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Capture motion
with a homemade strobe from a modified disposable camera.



Make it Bright

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Make Light Dance
Bend light through a water stream using a flashlight, shoe box, soda bottle, and duct tape.



Make it Sing

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Make a cup into a speaker and microphone
with some insulated wire, a cup, an earphone plug, and a magnet.


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Make a turkey baster into a flute
just add water (and some rubber bands)


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Make a Cigar Box into a Guitar
with a cigar box, twine, wood, screws, bolts.



Make it Tall

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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

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Make your own ice cream
in zip-lock bags


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