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Make a custom rubber stamp to leave your mark on everything
Tips to build the safest, most purr-fect catio for your feline overlord
How to protect wildlife from extreme heat
Moisturize your pup’s pads with some DIY paw balm
Grow your own mushrooms in a homemade terrarium
Transform your yard into an owl kingdom
Build it: the electronic Post-It note
2 DIY Printers That Would’ve Impressed Gutenberg
How To Build Your Own DIY Water Blaster
Amp Your Ride
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Doug Costlow, as told to Colleen Park
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Why and how to grow your own moss garden
7 edible flowers and how to use them
How to cross-stitch a QR code—and why you should
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Ruth Kogen Goodwin
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How to grow, harvest, preserve, and use aloe vera
7 things you can do to actually prevent wrinkles
The anatomy of a marshmallow
Plant a garden that helps the planet by devouring carbon
Listen To Records With Your Teeth
The 8 Best Student Tech Projects At Microsoft’s Imagine Cup
How To Turn A Leftover Candy Cane Into A Sound Machine
Projects: Install a Pixel Qi Screen on Your Laptop for Computing in the Sun
Grow A Bacterial Zoo In A Bottle
Raid Your Kitchen To Build This Potato Chip Speaker [Video]
The beauty and science of growing bonsai
Home Test Kit Helps You Find Antibiotics In Leaves
5 DIY Tricks To Amp Up Your Jack-O’-Lantern
How to build a record player powered by wind
It’s time to rip up your lawn and replace it with something you won’t need to mow
Spice up your art with turmeric, sunlight, and a 19th century photography technique
How to colorize your old black and white photos
Happy Pi Day! 10 Useful Things You Can Make With A Pie Tin
Meet The Prosthetist Creating Custom-Made Insane Limbs
How to get your grill ready for summer
We asked for your best photos of frozen soap bubbles—and wow, did you deliver
How To Track The Lines At Your Polling Place
Hack A Teddy Bear To Say Anything
Build A Keyless Car Unlocker Out of a Cellphone
Watch This Bicycle Go 80 MPH
How To Build A Smart Home Sensor
Turn Empty Beer Cans Into Sun-Tracking Cameras
Three Projects That Reinvent Breakfast
How a popcorn popper can help you roast coffee beans at home
2011 Invention Awards: Dynamically Glare-Blocking LCD Sunglasses
How to fix a moaning toilet
How to photograph the moon like a pro
Liquid lamps
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Radiohole (Eric Dyer and Maggie Hoffman)
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Gray Matter: Trap lightning in a block
How To Build A Jacob’s Ladder
An Artist Is Growing A Skeleton Human Hand In A Lab
5 MacGyver hacks you should try at home—and 2 you really shouldn’t
Beat the heat by building your own slip and slide
Turn your old boxes into a kid-sized rocket ship
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Lydia Geisel/Domino
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You Built What? A Motorized Easy Chair to Roar Around Campus
Simple Project Of The Month: The DIY Camping Shower
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Calvin Brennan
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Be your own hotspot
This Couple Is Hacking The Insulin Pump
Make magical scratch-and-sniff holiday cards with the kids
Keep dry January going all year with these cutting-edge non-alcoholic cocktails
5 yard games for some real summer fun
How to build an igloo that’s structurally sound and cozy
Make your own weather station with recycled materials
How To Create Vortex Rings In Your Swimming Pool
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Dianna Cowern
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5-Minute Project: Hand Warmers
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Justin DiPlacido
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Re-Create The First Intercontinental Weapon