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Toy Inventor’s Notebook: Colorful Comic Kaleidoscope
Ordinary kaleidoscopes must be pointed toward a light source to work. This one has built-in illumination, so you can hold it right up against a printed page.

Dame Juliana Berners and the Fishing Lure
This 15th-century English nun wrote the book on the technology of recreational fishing.

Sound-Activated Outlet
I decided to make programmable version of The Clapper using an Arduino microcontroller.

Glowing Recommendations: Interesting Lights To Use In Your Projects
Vintage components that add character to your creations.

Fun with Flexible 3D Printing Filaments
In the past few years, a flurry of new materials has hit the desktop 3D-printing market, enabling makers to do much more with their machines. Flexible materials are a popular option, enabling stretchy, bendy, and rubber-like creations. As with all filaments, there are many different manufacturers and variations. Here’s what it takes to get printing with flexible filaments.

Gingerboard Houses (by Kids)
Construct a whole village of recycled cardboard gingerbread houses for kids to decorate with paper, stickers, holiday candy, perhaps even leftover Halloween candy!

Coffee Cup Spy Cam
Take your cup of Joe from classic to classified with a tilt-triggered spy camera.

Extend The Life Of Your Gates By Adding A Gate Wheel
There are several reasons why you may need to fit a gate wheel to a timber gate – more than likely the main reason is that when you open your gate, it drags along the floor making it difficult to move freely.

How To Make A Boat Hitch Table
Make an adjustable-height modeling table like the pros, for hundreds less.

Joust-A-Bot
Turn a basic line-following robot into a jousting knight. Append a simple circuit to the chassis, add some personality to your bot, and let the games begin!

Prep CT images to print, using open-source software.

The Useless Candle
How to make a "Useless Candle;" its only function is to blow itself out