Fun & Games

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.

Photo-Etching and Soldering Your Own Brass Model Parts

Watch a master modeler show you how to photo-etch your own custom parts and solder them together.

This week, street artists paint over hate speech, Kirby is birthed from cardboard, Hacker House builds an automated gardener, and more.

Sudhu Tewari’s Prepared Player Piano Pinball System is one of his wackier inventions. It is an orchestra of sound and light.

These four projects showcase how, together, makers can build bigger, more creative, and more challenging projects than if they were solo.

Here are some project ideas your family will have fun collaborating on, and that will help inspire your kids to be makers.

John Edgar Park’s replica of Lúcio’s Sonic Amplifier, from the video game Overwatch, mimics the gun’s in-game ability to “shoot” music.

Using a water-reactive thermoplastic to create molds for casting small parts for scale modeling and miniature gaming.