R2-DIY
The galaxy’s most lovable robot inspires its fans to clone him.
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The Code Da Vinci Lived By
Renaissance hacks by the father of all geeks.
Recycled Rubber
It’s more fun to make a laptop bag from an old wetsuit than it is to buy a new one.
Google DIY Patterns
A DIY project is a design challenge that can best be described as a set of patterns, just as Google remade the web with a new kind of language for getting what we want from a web browser.
Maker Faire
Geeks gather together for an evening of DIY fun in our first-ever mini MAKE Fest at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference in 2005.
Blockheads
Lego: the ultimate prototyping material. Seriously.
Heirloom Technology — Nicaraguan Know-How
Tim Anderson describes the homemade solutions he saw on a recent trip to Nicaragua: hand-pedaled bicycles, reused school buses, horse-drawn carriages, sock coffee filters, and ancient cooling systems and water filters abound.
