Latest Projects Stories
Do-It-Yourself Projects That Deliver Hours of Play
The LEGO Master Builder Academy, Part One: In Which I Begin My Training
Gray Matter: Recasting The Highly Hazardous Toys of the Past
Building a Drivable OutRun Arcade Cabinet
Video: People Flying, Superhero Style, Over New York City
Video: A 32 MPH All-Terrain Electric Skateboard Steered With a Kinect
You Built What?! A Wearable LED Television
Instant Kool-Aid is a Marvel of Technology
Gray Matter: The Fire Bird
Honduran Teen Invents Cheap, Simple Eye-Tracking Device For Disabled
You Built What?! A Remote-Controlled Hacker Drone
Video: How to Turn Two iPads Into a Gory, Gaping Hole in Your Torso
Hermit Crabs Need You To 3-D Print New Shells For Them
You Built What?! A Six-Foot-Long Camera That Shoots Enormous Photos
Video: Smart Petri Dish Images Cells Using a Smartphone Camera and Legos
Video: A Homemade Rocket Soars 121,000 Feet in 92 Seconds
A 3-D Printer That Uses the Sun to Create Glass Objects Out of Sand
The Best Tools for Your DIY Project
Two Teenagers One-Up the Neighbors With a Giant Animatronic Dragon Display for Halloween
Adding a Touchscreen Interface to a DIY Project
Gray Matter: Easy DIY Gunpowder
Make Your Own DIY Drive-In
You Built What?! A Homemade Scanning Electron Microscope
A DIY UAV That Hacks Wi-Fi Networks, Cracks Passwords, and Poses as a Cell Phone Tower
Tinkerer Emulates Iron Man With Real-Life, Palm-Mounted Laser Weapon
How to Build a Sweet-Sounding Tube-Amp iPod Dock
You Built What?! A Colossal Flying Reproduction of a 1935 Airship
Video: DIY Magnetic Silly Putty Slowly, Creepily Eats and Digests Magnets
iPhone Controlled Cannon Tosses Beer From the Fridge
2011 Invention Awards: From Waste To Water
2011 Invention Awards: A Portable Motorized Body Board
2011 Invention Awards: A Magic Wand For Printing
2011 Invention Awards: A Crime-Fighting Armored Glove
2011 Invention Awards: A Mirror That Monitors Vital Signs
2011 Invention Awards: A Better Mechanical Hand
2011 Invention Awards: Sniffing Out Bedbugs
Citizens in Flood Zone Build Homemade Levees to Protect Their Homes
The 2011 PopSci Invention Awards
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Hackintosh Diaries, Part One: It’s Never Been Easier to Build a Hackintosh
Video: They Sure Don’t Make Pyrex Like They Used To
Man’s Best Friend Gets a High-Tech Home
Video: A Tour of a Homemade Scanning Electron Microscope
Gray Matter: A Foil Boat Floating On An Invisible Sea
Golf Cart Powered by the Spirit (and Engine) of a Truck
Video: DIY Human-Powered Exoskeleton Makes You Bigger, Stronger, Funnier
The Bar Is Open: A Slot Machine That Pays In Drinks
How To Make An E-Book Reader Case
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Google Engineer Builds an Affordable DIY Telepresence Robot To Keep In Touch With Remote Fiancee
Vise Cakes: Making a Grain Puffer on the Cheap
Weekend Project: PopSci Takes a Home Kitchen Centrifuge For A Spin
How to Make a Quick Metal Laptop Stand
3-D Printer Sets Record For Building World’s Biggest, Most Complicated Rubik’s Cube
You Built What?! A Truck-Sized, Street-Legal Radio Flyer Wagon
Hacking Microsoft’s Kinect: Two Weeks In, Six Amazing Projects
You Built What?! A Supersize Robotic Chess Set
Urbee Is the First Car Made By a 3-D Printer
Gray Matter: In Which I Set Myself On Fire
Video: DIY Coilgun Turns Voltage into Kilojoule Projectile Power
Reader Project of the Month: The Jet-Powered Lawn Tractor
A Husband and Wife Build a 19th-Century Wooden Submarine
You Built What?! A Propane-Powered Fireball Gun
Gray Matter: In Which I Fully Submerge My Hand in Liquid Nitrogen [Video]
Video: Scan and Mold Yourself at Home with a Budget DIY 3-D Scanner
Making the Makerbot, A DIY 3-D Printer