The return grille mounting in my new house was very sloppy, with a mixture of Molly bolts, toggle bolts, and bare screws in drywall. The sloppy workmanship annoyed me, and made swapping the filter way more work than it needed to be, so I came up with this easy no-tools fix. It could easily be adapted to most steel maintenance panels.
In honor of Geek Crafts month on CRAFT, we put up Brookelynn Morris’ LED Hula Hoop tutorial on Make: Projects. LED hula hoops are so beautiful to watch, and creating a custom hoop is a satisfying challenge. Twenty-one LEDs are used in this hoop; 6 are flashing LEDs that cycle through the colors of the […]
Makey the Robot has become something of a MAKE mascot. We really like the little fella, with his Hollywood good looks. Makey was a featured project in MAKE Volume 19, our robot issue, and now, our favorite in-house metal head can also be found on Make: Projects, with the complete details of the build. The […]
If you’ve ever used a magnetic stirplate before, you know how handy they can be. Scientific equipment is often way, way more expensive than it should be, and if you’ve ever priced commercial stirplates you may have been shocked at what some companies get for a device that is, ultimately, just a motor with a […]
In honor of Citizen Science month, here are some science-related projects available on the site. If you haven’t registered yet, done a project, or posted one, here’s how to get started. Also, don’t forget that Evernote now offers a Make: Projects Notebook in their “Trunk” area, so you can add (select) Make: Projects to your […]
Thing about folding tables is, the tops–which are commonly made of cheap particle board–tend to wear out much faster than the legs–which are usually made of steel. So the world is full of old folding tables with mutilated tops and perfectly serviceable legs. If you know where to look, good-looking hollow-core doors can be had for a song, and make for great replacement tabletops for those old folding legs if you know how to mount them correctly. Here’s how I did it, using XRS Molly bolts with expanding adhesive foam blown in for reinforcement.
Here are a few of our favorite new offerings on Make:Projects. If you haven’t registered yet, done a project, or posted one, what are you waiting for? Here’s how to get started. Projects from MAKE magazine and Make: Online: Playable Pac-Man Costume Halloween will be sneaking up and scaring the stuffing out of you before […]
