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

Photography &...
Build your own instant photo booth by turning a vintage camera into a thermal printing retro robot.
Photo Roboto — Vintage Camera Snapshot Booth
Costumes, Cos...
Create a spooky hologram illusion in a jar, using any TV or mobile display.
Pepper’s Ghost Hologram Flask
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Costumes, Cos...
Go goth! Sew this show-stopper cathedral dress with colorful sheer panels and LEDs that flicker like candles.
Candlelit Cathedral Dress
3D Printing &...
Embed tiny mirrors and mesh in your 3D prints to create sparkling fabrics.
3D-Printed Mirror Fabric
3D Printing &...
Use free or low-cost design software to 3D print lace fabric and make a hat, bowtie, corset, or whatever you can think of.
3D-Printed Lace Fabric
Paper Crafts
Here’s a super simple toy: a plastic bubble tip for a paper airplane. Dip it in bubble solution and leave a puff of bubbles as the plane darts away!
Toy Inventor’s Notebook: Bubble Plane
Photography &...
Build a camera-stabilizing rig for Steadicam smooth shots with instructions from "$14 Video Camera Stabilizer" from Make: 01
Flashback: $14 Video Camera Stabilizer
Photography &...
Here's how to build a rig to attach a film camera to a kite line for low-tech aerial photography.
Flashback: Kite Aerial Photography Puts Your Eye in the Sky
Robotics
Code and sew a plush, interactive, wearable companion robot.
Build a Cuddly, Plush Companion Robot With Cute LED Ears
Art & Sculptu...
Make a mysterious, sci-fi inspired, glowy ring using LED filaments.
Retro-Futuristic LED Filament Ring
Photography &...
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
Costumes, Cos...
Print, build, and animate your own musical ghosts using Bottango’s free animatronic software.
Animatronic Singing Spirits: Building Musical Ghosts With Free Software
Costumes, Cos...
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
Costumes, Cos...
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
Art & Sculptu...
With a single high-powered projector, you can turn the side of a building into a huge advertisement for your cause, plastering your message on a spot that would otherwise be out of reach.
DIY Graffiti Projector

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