Stash your secret stuff in this trick box that looks padlocked tight. It’s easy to open once you know the secret.
Hey sluggers — it's easy to make your own batting tees for tee-ball or batting practice, using ordinary stuff from the home-and-hardware store. Follow these easy instructions to build a pair of adjustable, durable tees for half the price of store-bought.
Turn an iPad into a studio-worthy, deep-end experimental musical instrument.
As a musician I often need to learn new songs, and it can be difficult to hear individual instruments in recordings I want to study. I have often wished for an easy way to eliminate or reduce the vocals and isolate the instruments. Various hardware and software solutions exist but they tend to be expensive or inconvenient. I wanted a cheap method that I could use anywhere, on any device with a 1/8" stereo headphone jack. Then, one night, I was fiddling with a pair of headphones with a defective plug. When moved a certain way, it gave exactly the vocals-canceling effect I had been looking for!
Make one from a Blistex tube, mini hobby servo, and an aluminum shaft.
In this project, I am going to show you how to make large dinosaur skeleton puzzles out of cardboard boxes.
The atomic age meets the Victorian -- charge up this Geiger counter's high-voltage tube using a unique mechanical oscillator that would do Jules Verne proud.
How to re-create a terrifying force of nature using an old record turntable and kerosene. CAUTION: Proceed at your own risk! This is another dangerous, hazardous, perilous project from MAKE Volume 35, "Playing With Fire."
In this project, I am going to show you how to make a simple light alarm circuit. The timing is performed by a cheap outlet timer. Then I add a simple LED circuit that gradually increases the brightness of the LEDs over several minutes. You can then put the lights into any housing that you want and make your own sunrise alarm.
A fountain can make a nice decorative fixture for your garden. But it isn't always easy to run a power cord out to where you want it. So I decided to run it on solar power. The system is controlled by an Arduino. This allows you to save energy by programming when the fountain will be turned on.
Use this neat technique to make plywood flexible.
Connect your smartphone to a microcontroller and make RGB LEDs glow any color with a finger swipe.
