DIY(Page 47)

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Ferrofluid forming a pile of conical shapes.
DIY

How to make ferrofluid

By Mikey Sklar

An R2-D2 cooler in the corner of a carpeted room, with video game controllers organized in front of it.
DIY

Now this is the droid we’re looking for

By Popular Science Team

Home-Brewing Biochar in Brooklyn
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Home-Brewing Biochar in Brooklyn

By Brooke Borel

An old man in a gray suit using a rappelling device to descend from a tall office building.
DIY

The 2009 Invention Awards

By Popular Science Team

A white woman with short black-and-gray hair looking excited behind a chocolate bundt cake with a large slice taken out of it.
DIY

A scientific approach to dessert

By M. Farbman

A lamp made out of a mold from a plastic bottle, based on a 1961 article in Popular Science magazine.
DIY

Bright Idea: The plastic bottle lamp

By Joel Barnard

A homemade robot at the 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition in New York City.
Technology

Robotic adventures at the FIRST competition

By Paul Gleason

An iPhone with app icons visible.
DIY

How to make an iPhone app: part 2

By Dave Prochnow

A person holding a white iPod.
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New music from an old iPod

By Laura Silver

A man in blue Popular Science coveralls holding a dumbbell made out of old CDs, pointing at the camera, and yelling.
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PopSci 5-Minute Project video: CD dumbbell

By Popular Science Team

Three thin rectangular cork-plugged bottles in a row, the left one nearly full of red vinegar, the middle one half full of yellow vinegar, and the right one about a quarter full of orange vinegar.
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Making vinegar at home

By Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot

A packet of freeze-dried ice cream with a photo of an astronaut on the packaging.
Science

If it’s good enough for astronauts, it’s good enough for us

By Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot

Pectin: not just for jelly
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Pectin: not just for jelly

By Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot

A DIY pocket theremin.
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Build a pocket theremin on the cheap

By Dave Prochnow

A WowWee Roboraptor with a flame coming out of its mouth to toast some charred marshmallows.
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A fire-breathing bot

By Dave Prochnow

A monkey mask on the ground next to a skinned robotic monkey head.
DIY

Scare tactics

By Theodore Gray and Paul Wallich

An original black Xbox hooked up to a flat-screen TV and displaying Xbox Media Center (XBMC).
DIY

Xbox media monster

By Mike Haney

A solar-powered WiFi extender near someone using a device in a hammock outside. Illustration.
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Network your backyard

By Mike Outmesguine

The Windows key on a black keyboard.
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Windows rehab 101

By Dan Tynan

A person wearing white work gloves striking a match on a light brown surface against a blue background.
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Making a perfect match

By Theodore Gray

A person purifying silicon in a glass bowl. Top: burning magnesium in a mushroom cloud of white smoke; middle top: burning hydrogen as a flame; middle bottom: burning silane gas as white bursts; bottom: falling silicon particles.
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Making silicon from sand

By Theodore Gray

A person opening a large photo album that's also a computer screen. Illustration.
DIY

Share your shots

By Mikkel Aaland

Car H2.0 guide
DIY

Car H2.0, Where Are You?

By Eric Adams

A man wearing black headphones and a black t-shirt sitting in front of a silver Macbook laptop with his elbows on the table and his hands clasped in front of his mouth, looking concerned.
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Deep-sixing spam

By Andrew Zolli