Projects Archive - Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers

Electronics
It’s a star-filled universe — in your pocket!
Mini Infinity Cube
Wearables
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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Science
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai is a giant volcano under the South Pacific Ocean, 3,000km (1,860mi) east of Australia.
King of the Ring of Fire
Home
Televisions these days are technological marvels — absolutely massive yet paper-thin screens with crystal-clear 4K (or better) resolution, up to 120Hz refresh rates, high dynamic range (HDR) color and luminance, and other features that ...
Bright Lights, Big TV – DIY Ambient Lights
Technology
“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
Science
The Scientific Revolution was a momentous time. Most historians of science agree that during this era — 1500 to 1700 CE — people started thinking differently, more scientifically, about the way the world worked.
Christiaan Huygens and the Pendulum Clock
Robotics
Want to build your own battle robot?
Build Your First Combat Bot!
Workshop
If you were on YouTube in June 2021, there’s a good chance you were recommended the video “Rare Antique Fractal Vise ” by Hand Tool Rescue. The video showed a unique vise patented in 1913, and for most of us, it was like nothing ...
3D Print A Fractal Vise That Can Hold Odd Shapes
Robotics
In the summer of 2015, I went to my first Maker Faire, in Tokyo, Japan.
Smart3: The Self-Solving Rubik’s Cube
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
Woodworking
The sector, also known as the compass of proportion, is a fun and easy-to-use calculating device that uses the power of geometry to perform a variety of useful math jobs. Although at first glance a sector might seem as quaint and ...
Recreating Galileo’s Sector
Home
In times like these you learn to … lather up. Everybody needs hand hygiene, everywhere.
DIY Mobile Handwash Station
Food & Bevera...
Most of us have experienced power outages. While brief interruptions are unpleasant, lengthy outages that can occur after severe weather, forest fires, and earthquakes can cause loss of food stored in refrigerators and freezers unless ...
Get Barreled: How To Store Drinking Water
Education
Isaac Newton developed calculus back in the mid-1600s as a tool to explain physical phenomena, in particular the motions of planets. As it turned out, it was also a way to encode how things move and change more generally, from economie...
Making Calculus With LEGO
Gardening
A couple years ago, longtime Make: author Len Cullum came to my house to purchase a pile of granite cobbles that I had left over from a driveway project. We chatted a bit and found that we shared an affinity for Japanese...
Build a Bamboo Garden Gate
Technology
Supercapacitors are among the coolest of so-called passive electronic components. Because they are ultra-high-capacity capacitors, they can function as batteries capable of being very rapidly charged and briefly powering many electroni...
Badder Than Batteries: Make A Supercapacitor
Fun & Games
Here’s a classic skill-and-action game updated for you to make and play. You and your opponent each start your robot at the top of the playfield.
Don’t Drop Your Bot! A Fresh Take On A Classic Game

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