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Make a Box Set for Your Favorite Series
In this project, I am going to show you a simple method for creating custom box sets of whatever kind of media you are collecting.

Skill Builder: Understanding Different Soldering Iron Tips
There are hundreds of different soldering iron tip shapes and sizes used in everything from jewelry making to plumbing to even stained glass. We’ll focus on the 3 most common for electronics work: chisel, conical, and bevel tips.

Create Custom Sound Waveforms with 555 Timers
Learn to shape sound waves with timer chips to create your own digital sampling system emulator.

Make Your Own Precise Vibration Sensors
Detect motion and even individual footsteps with DIY sensors better than your smartphone’s.

Make Thermite — the Invention that Welded the World’s Modern Railways
Re-create the incendiary reaction that welded the world’s modern railways.

One of our prime passions is to motivate the next great minds and ideas by posting informative step-by-step tutorials.

Universal Robot Gripper
This gripper takes advantage of "jamming" semi-fluid coffee grounds.

Adjustable Control Circuit for Heating Elements
Most soldering irons are either on or off; it would be much more useful if you were able to change the temperature of the iron. So I designed a simple control circuit that will let you adjust the output of a heating element.


Build a Cheap and Easy No-Solder Prototyping Board
A great transition from simple circuits to solderless breadboards, the springboard is a 50-year-old relic that’s difficult to find commercially these days, but easy and cheap to make.

The  Cracker Box Amp
Build this workable little practice amp in about an hour.

Make a Warren Truss Bridge with Popsicle Sticks
Build the simple span that launched the great age of iron bridge building.