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What comes after Arduino?
Making alcohol-making easy
How to make ferrofluid
Now this is the droid we’re looking for
The ultimate minimalist shelter
Three Incredibly Creative Musical Flamethrowers
The World’s Toughest Workwear
The Fastest (and Most Dangerous) Way to Light a Grill
MIT students take photos from the edge of space for $150
A Chinese DIY submarine made from oil barrels
Welding, part one: gear selection
White-out at 65 miles per hour
Möbius Strip Music Box Brings Non-Orientable Topology to the Trinket World
Sudoku-solving Lego robot: a homegrown toy with smarts
Can this Chinese farmer’s DIY helicopter really fly?
Carve steel with salt water, electricity, and a tin earring
Green Dream: The Swiss cheese staircase
Five Tools To Survive the Apocalypse
A water-powered jetpack
Theme Building: Incredible DIY projects for summer
The Prism is part laser synth, part guitar, pure fun
Blowing up cheese with nitrous oxide
The world’s fastest remote-control car
So we put a jet turbine on our ATV…
Home-Brewing Biochar in Brooklyn
DIY from the archives: make your own magnetic postage scale
Ultra-Bright Synchrotron Promises World’s Highest-Resolution Images of Atoms
A device that gives you reminders when you need them most
Old flatbed scanner + 50mm lens = amazing 130-megapixel scancam
Army mechanic’s garage tinkering yields 18-foot mecha exoskeleton
Sculpting in solid mercury, with some help from liquid nitrogen
How Does That Bed of Nails Really Feel?
DIY from the archives: a humane bug zapper from 1971
How to make quick pickles
The 2009 Invention Awards
Drink-slinging droid
Gray Matter: Apple juice
PopSci DIY: a newspaper baler, updated from the archives
Ramps, a wild harvest
The smallest OS in the West
A scientific approach to dessert
I don’t know: Alaska
The fastest boot in the West
For Easy Prototyping, Surf’s Up
Bright Idea: The plastic bottle lamp
Pennywise solar power
How to make an iPhone app: part 3
Robotic adventures at the FIRST competition
Fashion Nerd: a whole new kind of DIY
Extreme Shepherding
How to make an iPhone app: part 2
Gray Matter: Blowing (up) hydrogen bubbles
Shades of green
Make a guess game
A really tiny tinyCylon
A DIY proposal
Agave nectar, a sweetener for any occasion
DIY grow lights
Dot-to-dot programming
New music from an old iPod
PopSci 5-Minute Project video: insta-cool beer chiller
PopSci 5-Minute Project video: CD dumbbell
Polyphemus demonstration and evaluation kit
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