Projects – Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers

Makeup & Cost...
I designed and built this 10-foot-tall costume for Halloween 2020 for about $100. The head is a giant plastic skull I found at a Halloween store, and I downloaded creepy scary sounds from Spotify and played them on a Bluetooth speaker ...
1+2+3: Floating Specter!
Art & Sculptu...
Adding smoke and flame effects to your costume is easier than you might think, using a vaping e-cig loaded with vegetable glycol and pumped using a small aquarium pump. This effect, combined with some flickering LEDs tucked into inconspicu...
Add Awesome Smoke And Fire Effects To This Ghost Rider — Or Any Costume
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Wearables
Inductive chargers are becoming more popular for phones, watches, headphones, and other devices — they’re everywhere!
Send Electrical Power Through The Air To Light Up LEDs Wirelessly
Art & Sculptu...
Eyeballs are my favorite things to make.
Needle Felted Eyeballs: Easy and Creepy
Music
Build a self-playing meditation drum actuated by seven 2-axis mallet-wielding robots.
ZenBot: Musical Doorbell Drumbot
Yarncraft
If you have a knitting machine and have tried out its cool color-patterning abilities, you’ve noticed that the resulting fabric curls at the edges; it’s the nature of single stockinette knitting.
Color-Patterned Scarf Using a Hacked Knitting Machine
Photography &...
Dave Blair creates stunning fractal visuals with some of the world’s coolest video feedback machines.
Freaky Fractals: HD Video Feedback Machine
Art & Sculptu...
build a spooky interactive head in a jar, using zoom and some creativity
The “Zoom Of Doom” Spooky Floating Head Trick
Makeup & Cost...
Make this versatile bio-based vegan textile right in your kitchen.
Growing Leather: Make Vegan Leather With Kombucha
Paper Crafts
Experiment with the world’s lowest-flying aircraft.
Make a Mini Ground Effect Vehicle
Music
Play this wireless BLE MIDI xylophone, or watch it play itself!
MUSIC MAKING: BLE MIDI Xylophone
Music
Get started with DIY synths with this 3D-printable, no-PCB keyboard
Print-a-Synth
Music
All instruments are inventions, and all music is made up — so make your own, using microcontrollers
Exploring the Microverse: Making Music With Microcontrollers
Yarncraft
Use a hacked knitting machine to make a simple patterned hat.
Machine Knit a Hat Using AYAB
Art & Sculptu...
Forget boring snow globes — build a swirling tempest for your desk using magnetic stirring and LED lightning!
Rheoscopic Storm Globe
Music
Build a smart octopus drumbot that listens, learns, and plays along with you
Dr. Squiggles: An AI Rhythm Robot
Art & Sculptu...
Practice “slow making” and mindfulness while needle-felting, then sew on a light to complete the magical experience
LED Lit Felted Mushrooms

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