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Toy Inventor’s Notebook: Build a Classic Cartesian Diver Toy
Cartesian diver toy "Diving Tony" was a cereal box favorite. You can make one quickly from just a few parts. Use clear PETG tubing and a piece of solid styrene to make the diver follow your commands.

Minecraft Activated Arduino Alarm
You’ve amassed a small fortune in diamonds, wood, coal, iron, food, and the other resources you need.

Build an Infrared Shooting Arcade
Learning about technology is a lot easier when you’re having fun — and shooting at targets is fun! With this amusement park–style arcade, you’ll fire beams of infrared light instead of projectiles to trigger automated knock-down targets you can customize with soda cans, ducks, robots, or anything else you feel like toppling with a well-placed shot.

How to Clone and Grow a Fig Tree
Don’t steal fruit from your neighbor’s fig tree — clone it!

Motion Sensing Presence Lights
I’ve always been a fan of “presence lights” that turn on when I walk into a space.

Create Pop-Up Paper Crafts with Interactive Electronics
Making art projects with paper is fun and accessible for even the littlest of hands.

Arduino-Powered Wearable Lets You Don Your Favorite GIF
Want to rock big animations on your LED wearables? There’s an easy way to download animated GIFs onto a 16×16 RGB LED matrix using Processing software, Arduino, and the Teensy microcontroller.

Howtoons: Make Butter with Reverse Emulsion
Making butter is easy! All you need is a mason jar and heavy whipping cream.

Make a High Voltage Plasma Arc Speaker
Create a high-voltage loudspeaker that makes sound waves by vibrating an electric arc.

Body filler is a thick, two-part polyester resin, commonly called Bondo. Cursory Googling reveals a universe of mostly automotive applications, primarily for repairing body damage, but we’ll leave that to the experts and show you a few creative uses for this versatile stuff.

Create a Duct-Tape Mannequin for Custom-Fit Garments
Use cheap materials you can find around the house to create a quick and easy custom mannequin.

3D-print it, spin it up to 30,000 RPM, and watch it take off like a rocket!