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Inflate Your Wearables Using Drone Motors and Pneumatic Air Muscles

Pump up your look using drone motors and pneumatic air muscles to give your wearables a hint of animation with soft robotics.

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Explore Chaos Theory with an LED Double Pendulum

Pendulums are often meditative, but this double pendulum with attached LEDs spins in crazy unpredictable and highly entertaining ways.

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Ben Einstein Funds Hardware Startups — Here’s His Advice for You

Ben Einstein knows hardware startups. Get the tips to make sure your product can make it to the market.

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Build a See-Through Cyclone Dust Separator for Your Shop Vac

Upgrade your shop vac with a 20 gallon garbage can so you can make your project and suck up debris with ease.

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Coding Like a Knitter: How Mariko Kosaka Reverse Engineered a Knitting Machine

A programmer explains how she wrote a Javascript program that translates the pseudocode of knitting patterns into text-based graphic patterns.

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Create a Squeezable Musical Instrument With Tin Foil & Grocery Bags

This tin foil instrument can control a 555 timer and add interesting audio effects based on the principle of capacitance.

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DiResta: Whirlygig

In this episode of DiResta, Jimmy uses some scrap metal around his shop to fabricate a whirlygig.

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Draw Distorted Pictures That Reveal Themselves in a Curved Mirror

You can transform a drawing into a distorted coloring book page that reveals the image in a curved mirror.

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How to Mummify a Banana

Mummify a banana to make sure that you will have a snack waiting for you in the afterlife. This project is Pharaoh approved.

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Watch an Artist Transform Driftwood into Amazing Animals

James Doran-Webb creates lively-looking animal sculptures out of steel and driftwood.

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