DIY Tyvek Mailer Stuff Sack
Check out this cheap and easy way to create a durable stuff sack for hiking or camping out of a Tyvek mailer, a length of paracord, and some dental floss.
DIY Projects
How-To: Playful Puppy Robot
Make: Projects community member and winner of the MAKE Volume 27 Robot Contest, OddBot, recently shared a new project build with us in the form of a Playful Puppy Robot. How playful? You be the judge: OddBot shows you how to build the puppy bot, which is Arduino compatible and requires no soldering. The sample […]
How-To: Speed Vest for Night Cycling
If car users knew how fast cyclists were moving, would they be more willing to share the road? That’s the question posed by Mykle Hansen in the intro to his Speed Vest project from MAKE Volume 19. Bicyclists receive a lot of honk-based grief from car drivers who perceive them as slow and in the […]
DIY Sous Vide: Cook Perfect Steaks with Arduino Electronics at BioCurious!
Come one, come all, science geeks, food lovers, Arduino hackers. Build a magical box with Arduino-inspired technology that will control the temperature of an appliance you hack, up to 0.1 degrees accuracy. October 15th at the BioCurious hackerspace in Sunnyvale!
1,000-Piece Popsicle Stick Bomb
Looks like a great parent-child project. It’s not in danger of breaking any records, but a fun project nonetheless. [Via @ItsColossal]
Chess Board Made from Chemistry Glassware
Use labware to create a unique and geeky chess board.
Tote from Trash Bag
Did you know we now allow you to attach media to your comments? Please only use your new powers for good. This feature immediately bore fruit, as reader Gloria Kelly commented and loaded an image to this 2007 Weekend Project video about making a messenger bag out of plastic grocery/trash bags.
