Amaze your kids by transforming two old toilet rolls and a few other recycled bits and bobs into a cool steampunk-inspired robot.
What you’ll need to begin: THE BOX in which your puzzle came (hopefully, with a picture of the completed puzzle on it); A typical 3-in-1 style printer-scanner-copier (with ink, of course); Photo paper (I’d use gloss finish, depending on the puzzle); Microsoft Paint (which is on virtually every computer, new or old, running Windows); A […]
By Christie, Jim, John, and Terry Noe Our dog, Maggie, loves to run around in our big yard.
By Norene Leddy with Ed Bringas and Johana Moscoso The Alarm Purse is a simple, fashionable way to add an audible alarm to your handbag.
Learn how to control a servo motor with a dial and a simple circuit.
Anyone who’s shivered in the dark at a scary movie or laughed at the unintentional cheese-ball of a bad sci-fi (paging Ed Wood) knows the eerie sounds of the theremin.
Traction is all about digging into the terrain.
Give your rug a haircut.
Clock radios are everyday hated devices that designers seem to ignore, judging by how little their features and user interfaces have changed.
Jim Chen designed an excellent electronic "Whack-a-Mole" game using 555 timers, LEDs, and bent-diode touch sensors, that you can build on a solderless breadboard
When it comes to decorating, I picture exactly what I want, then refuse to settle for less.