Craft & Design DIY Projects for Makers - Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers

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Make a mysterious, sci-fi inspired, glowy ring using LED filaments.
Retro-Futuristic LED Filament Ring
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You can use projection mapping to create a spooky display that’s sure to impress all your candy-seeking visitors — and it won’t cost you a cent.
Turn Your House Into a Screen With Projection Mapping
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Print, build, and animate your own musical ghosts using Bottango’s free animatronic software.
Animatronic Singing Spirits: Building Musical Ghosts With Free Software
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Chat with and command your own embedded-AI companion bot using local LLMs.
Hey Robot! Build Your Own AI Companion
Yarncraft
Needle-felt these mini zombie dolls — and make them yelp!
Toy Inventor’s Notebook: Talking Zombie Needle-Felt Doll Maker
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Build an illuminated, animated, tessellated tote using LED pebble lights and 3D-printed fabric.
Bag to the Future: Sew a Trendy Messenger Bag With Light-Up LED Animations
Paper Crafts
Re-create this trick postage stamp to make pop-up toys and cards.
Toy Inventor’s Notebook: Fun With Pop-Up Stamps
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“Guerrilla projection, pioneered by artists and advertisers, has been increasingly embraced by activists in recent years as a new medium for delivering messages.
DIY Graffiti Projector
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Super-size a classic teaching toy and put the play back in playground
Ginormous Froebel Blocks
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Build a colorful clock using light pipes that is easy and fast to make
Build a DIY Digital Clock With Glowing, Flowing Light Pipes
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What’s your star sign? Stitch your favorite constellation and light it up for all to see
This Zodiac Embroidery Lights Up
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We’re going to explore ways to make audio speakers more wearable — not by sewing ordinary hard speakers into garments, but by creating new kinds of speakers out of textiles and conductive thread.
Sew Wearable Soft Speakers
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“Squaring the circle” is a mathematical challenge as old as geometry itself. The “Cube Orb” LED sphere inverts that goal and takes it to a new dimension.
ORB-sessed – LED Sphere
Music
Vintage Gibson electric guitars had a special circuit for modifying the sound of the pickups: the Vari Tone (Figure A).
A Can Full of Tone
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This project is a continuation of my quest to build a robotic clock that can write and rewrite the time continuously, day in and day out. My first attempt, Doodle Clock, was a failure due to the marker drying up.
How to Make A Unique “Rewrite” Clock With Arduino, CNC, And Sequins
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Edge-lit displays typically consist of an etched sheet of acrylic, with one edge embedded in an opaque base containing a light source. The light diffuses through the acrylic to make the etchings glow.
“Inner Glow” LED Heart
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It is a profoundly human compulsion to change our environment to suit ourselves, and the quarter-trillion-dollar US home décor industry presents a playful (and profitable) example: We bedeck our living spaces to express ourselves and ...
Pixelblaze Pillows: Light Up Your Upholstery With LEDs

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