Recently, while looking online for woodworking tools appropriately sized for my preschool daughter, I came across some construction sets geared toward children. Thinking fondly of the sets I had when I was little, I looked closely to see if I could find one suited for my kids. I was intrigued by one kit that promised […]
Shop Vacs are essential in the workshop, but sometimes the casters seem to have a mind of their own. How about using the vacuum’s discharge air to make it obediently float behind you? That’s exactly what maker Bill Wells did, and his how-to appears on the pages of MAKE Volume 29. Bill essentially took off […]
The latest installment of Roy Doty’s comic strip, “Eureka!”
Easy PVC pipe cannon filled with propane fuel fires foam Nerf darts at dangerous velocities.
When we first launched Make: Projects, our DIY library, a year and a half ago, one of our goals was to free up projects from past issues of MAKE, for the community to collaborate on. With 29 volumes of MAKE, we had some work to do, chipping away at entering projects in the system. We […]
Coming in MAKE Volume 32: TV hacks, such as Tanya Bezreh’s PlaTVer, which uses a flat-screen TV as an animated serving platter
MAKE contributing writer John Iovine has shared a number of his project builds on the pages of MAKE, but his specialty is Geiger counters. He’s been designing, making, and selling them for 15 years through his company, Images Scientific Instruments . In the latest issue of MAKE, Volume 29, John shares his expert step-by-step tutorial […]
