Projects Archive - Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers

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
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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
Craft & Desig...
If you have a knitting machine and have tried out its cool color-patterning abilities, you’ve noticed that the resulting fabric curls at the edges; it’s the nature of single stockinette knitting.
Color-Patterned Scarf Using a Hacked Knitting Machine
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Dave Blair creates stunning fractal visuals with some of the world’s coolest video feedback machines.
Freaky Fractals: HD Video Feedback Machine
Home
Build a custom notification circuit that lights up when your favorite maker uploads a new video.
YouTube Maker Alarm
Science
Going to the Moon and Mars? You’ll need maps. Beautiful maps.
DIY Atlas of Space

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