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July 21, 2015
New Project: How to Reverse Engineer a Design by Measuring Pictures
In this tutorial, I will show you how to use a graphics editing program like Inkscape to measure pictures for reverse engineering.
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July 19, 2015
Mom Transforms Dolls into Sci-Fi Heroines
Can't find any dolls of your favorite superheroine? Check out these DIY dolls and use the inspiration for your own builds!
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July 18, 2015
Create Instant Clouds in a Soda Bottle
Learn about pressure and vapor with this fun and easy summer science project that makes instant clouds contained within a soda bottle.
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July 17, 2015
New Project: Make an Apple Watch Door Unlocker
Use an Apple Watch to automagically open doors at home or at work with a tap on your wrist.
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The Wonderful Whimsical Instruments of Maywa Denki
Maywa Denki is a true delight: a unique group seemingly not of this world and who cannot be easily described. You can call them a “Nonsense Factory“—we have, and they do. If I were to conjure up an algorithm to approximate their well-played silliness, just roll together Devo, Talking Heads, OK Go, Blue Man Group, and throw […]
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Rubber Bands and Fishing Line Make a Low-Budget 3D Printer
Jeffrey Kerr (aka Lobo CNC) is on a mission to make the cheapest DIY 3D printer possible. His current design is the Delta-T v0.3 a non-Cartesian 3D printer in the delta style that uses only a handful of easily sourced parts, including: acrylic, aluminum tubing, stepper motors, an extruder, fishing line, […]
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See it Made: Wooden 3D Cube Illusion Bowl
Watch woodworker Thomas Anton Geurts create a wooden bowl with a 3D cube illusion design (known also as the tumbling cube).
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See the Amazingly Detailed Build of this Pint-Sized Barrel
Robbie the Woodworker shows you how to make a cooper barrel. He also teaches you which unmechanized tool would be used to complete the task.
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July 16, 2015
New Project: Installing a Fiber Optic Starfield Ceiling
For my wife and I, a dream of ours has always been to have a home theater to watch movies with our family. This past winter we’ve finally been able to make it a reality. We had our basement finished and in doing so, I planned a good sized room […]
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New Project: Build a Steampunk Sonic Screwdriver
In the British Sci-fi series Doctor Who, the time traveling Doctor often uses his sonic screwdriver to rescue his companions and save the day. Now you can build your own version that lights up and emits actual sonic vibrations from a high revolution motor cut out of a dollar store […]
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