Projects Archive - Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers

Craft & Desig...
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!
Food & Bevera...
These edible eyeballs are made from a popular traditional Japanese snack called shiratama. They’re fun and spooky and also not too gross looking, perfect for Halloween!
Edible Eyeballs: Elevate Your Spooky Libations With These Easy Treats
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Makeup & Cost...
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
Home
Ask and behold your future told — in memes — with this twist on a classic toy
Build a GIF-Powered Magic 8-Ball
Workshop
One of the largest obstacles I faced when first starting to cosplay was what to do with all the toxic fumes created by a lot of products I needed to use, such as contact cement and spray paint. The easiest thing to do is work outside but t...
DIY Fume Hood
Craft & Desig...
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
Fun & Games
Get cooking with this ultra-efficient woodstove made from scrap
Tin Can Rocket Stove
Food & Bevera...
If you shake cream and ice long enough, it turns into ice cream. Sweet! But just how much shaking, and for how long?
Plastic Bag Ice Cream In 3 Easy Steps
Wearables
Make a Light-up skirt with 120 hidden full-color LEDs that respond to your movements
Motion Animated NeoPixel LED Skirt
Art & Sculptu...
Eyeballs are my favorite things to make.
Needle Felted Eyeballs: Easy and Creepy
Woodworking
This simple woodworking project provides years of backyard fun, French style
The Game of Jeu Gruyère
Craft & Desig...
Build a self-playing meditation drum actuated by seven 2-axis mallet-wielding robots.
ZenBot: Musical Doorbell Drumbot
Digital Fabri...
Print this amazing James Webb Space Telescope model and unfold it like the real thing.
Deep Space Transformer: How I Designed the 3D-Printed James Webb Space Telescope
Electronics
Use your hands in virtual reality and feel the objects you touch — for about 50 bucks
Build Budget DIY VR Haptic Gloves
Technology
Track your beehive’s health with this deep-learning, end-to-end solution.
LongHive: Build a LoRaWAN-enabled Remote Beehive Monitor
Electronics
Experiment with no-power, low-budget crystal and foxhole radios using found materials and your local environment
DIY Radio Receivers For Cheap With Found Materials
Electronics
Build this alarming project two ways — from bare components and from a Pico microcontroller.
Build This Intruder Alarm Two Ways: Using 555 Timers or a Raspberry Pi

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