Projects Archive - Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers

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!
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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 old-scho...
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
Art & Sculptu...
This project is a continuation of my quest to build a robotic clock that can write and rewrite the time continuously, day in and day out. My first attempt, Doodle Clock, was a failure due to the marker drying up.
How to Make A Unique “Rewrite” Clock With Arduino, CNC, And Sequins
Computers & M...
DuckyPad is a 15-key, do-it-all mechanical macro pad that helps streamline and speed up your workflow by automating keyboard (and mouse!) inputs. It features a sleek design and all the goodies of a high-end keyboard — mechanical...
Hot Keyboards: Find Cool Kits or Build The DuckyPad
Drones & Vehi...
Some people love to launch model rockets, and personally I’ve always wanted to launch a stratospheric balloon up to “the edge of space.” We don’t exactly do the same thing for the same reasons, but there’s one thing we would ...
Auto-Return Parachute Comes Back To The Launch Site Every Time
Electronics
The Solar Bottle Lamp is a solar-powered light that reuses a waste plastic bottle by attaching a 3D-printed solar lamp in place of the old plastic cap.
DIY Solar Bottle Lamp
Art & Sculptu...
Edge-lit displays typically consist of an etched sheet of acrylic, with one edge embedded in an opaque base containing a light source. The light diffuses through the acrylic to make the etchings glow.
“Inner Glow” LED Heart

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