What Are You Doing for Halloween? 08/06/2012 If there’s a holiday made for makers, it’s Halloween. On this night, you can proudly wear your most bizarre creation...
CNC Machine Kit 08/06/2012 For the longest time, I’ve wanted to start tinkering with CNC milling and routing. But despite the number of well-documented...
Hardware the Hard Way 07/31/2012 Aside from helming Wired MAGAZINE, Chris Anderson is Well Known to makers as co-founder of the DIY Drones community of...
The Soul of an Old Heathkit 07/31/2012 Howard Nurse built hundreds of Heathkits. As a kid, he loved to go to sleep reading the catalog — a...
Gilbert’s Girders 07/31/2012 The Museum of Interesting Things is crammed into every inch of the ninth-floor New York City apartment of Denny Daniel,...
Build Your Dream Car 07/31/2012 I built my first car model when I was 8. It was a Duesenberg 1934 Coupe Chauffeur. Magnificent. Body pieces...
Bringing the Best Kits to Makers 07/31/2012 Back in our first year, the Maker Shed shipped more than 25,000 kits. Not a bad start, but after years...
Homebrew — My Home-Built Chairlift 07/31/2012 My lovely wife and I built a chairlift to get from our lake house down to the dock.
Made On Earth — Slap Shot to the Moon 07/30/2012 When Jeff Stone and his wife, Susan, decided to build a telescope, run-of-the-mill building materials just wouldn’t do.
Tips for Building with Kids 07/30/2012 More and more parents are taking it upon themselves to organize groups of kids for after-school hands-on learning projects. Read...