Looking for a thrift store-friendly DIY? Create your own custom upcycled bike basket with just a few easy-to-find items from your own home or your favorite flea market. If you’ve got a few extra minutes (plus glue drying time) to spare this weekend, you can hit the farmer’s market in style with a cute and […]
Build a DIY hydrojet-powered watercraft for kids that’s perfect for the backyard pool. Kids love to drive the land roving mini cars and trucks you can get at the big box toy stores, now they can head to the water and pilot their own home built pontoon boat. This boat is at a scale and […]
Over at The Backyard Scientist, they wanted to know what would happen if you poured molten aluminum into a watermelon. The results were surprising. And very cool. I guess the aluminum flowed into the more watery, less dense cavities inside the melon where the water quickly cooled the metal before it could cook its way […]
I’ve always been interested in electronics, but when I started publishing projects professionally, I got interested in photography, too. I soon realized that with BEAM robots and other small “artisanal” circuits, the batteries are one of the largest and most visible components, and which brand you choose — the colors, the text, the design on […]
When you’re working with projects involving vacuum pumps, a vacuum gauge will show you the pressure in the chamber being evacuated. There are many different approaches to measuring the pressure in a vacuum, but we’ll focus on one of the most common, called the Bourdon pressure gauge. At the heart of the Bourdon gauge is a […]
The value of a good pair of wire strippers is often overlooked until they’ve disappeared from your toolbox. Here are the 4 basic types of wire strippers that you’ll encounter. GAUGED WIRE STRIPPERS Gauged wire strippers are the simplest and most common type of wire stripper used. Each pair is only made for certain gauges […]
Have beautiful woven fabric scraps taking up room in your stash? Turn that unused cloth into wearable art with this wild woven buttons project. Customize buttons to fit your own personal style, then create texture and embellishments to make them truly one-of-a-kind! Ready to bust some of that stash? Head on over to the wild […]
