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  How to build a thriving indoor garden

  Master your #plantshelfie game.

  ... there are many outside the building in Golden Gate Park, presumably ... phenomenon after the company opened its first West Coast location. “The ...

  By Ellen Airhart
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  Make Your Own Hyperlocal Radio Station

  By modifying an FM transmitter for MP3 players

  ... Lee realized she could boost its range to turn her music ... broadcast technology,” she says. Her build lets you share your NPR ...

  By Thom Leavy
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  A Sensor For Bionic DIY Projects

  Flex your maker muscles

  ... 2006, undergraduate Brian Kaminski was building his senior design project: a ... an action. To demonstrate, Kaminski built Wolverine claws that shoot out ...

  By Dave Gershgorn
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  Make Your Own DIY Clock

  Tell time and support arrested teenage inventor Ahmed Mohammed

  ... project ideas, including designs for building your own digital clock from ... with an Arduino that sets its own time using GPS satellites.For ...

  By Steph Yin
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  The 15-Year-Old Who Builds Drones

  Pittsburgh native Mihir Garimella won the Google Science Fair for his fly-inspired robot

  ... creatures like fruit flies—and building his own.

  By Sophie Bushwick
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  A Printer For Circuit Boards

  One of ten brilliant innovations from our 2015 Invention Awards

  ... with nanoscientist Katarina Ilic to build their own device. Two years ... on fiberglass boards. By using its solder function to attach components ...

  By Shannon Palus
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  Harvest Useful Parts From Old Electronics [Video]

  One man's scrap heap is another man's hardware store

  ... a TV, and I can build a stun gun," Hackett says. ... new bounty for a simpler build, like a radio receiver. Learn ...

  By Sophie Bushwick
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  The Wu-Tang Can: Interactive Tipping, Y'all

  A tip machine that plays "C.R.E.A.M."

  ... a PDF of instructions to build the Wu-Tang Can here._This article ...

  By Jessie Geoffray
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  A Simple Solar Rover

  Build your own planetary explorer.

  ... , and leftover LEGOs, you can build a sunshine-powered robot that ambles ... Set #G15642 Approximate time to build this project: 3 hours Cost ...

  By Dave Prochnow
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  Build A Lightweight Tent For A Pittance

  Shelter for less than $2 per square yard

  ... send this temporary shelter sailing. Build and use at your own ...
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  3 Students Plan To Push Their Friend Off A Cliff In A Wright-Style Glider [Video]

  What could possibly go wrong?

  This Saturday at a harbor near Washington, D.C., a team of student engineers is going to shove a homemade flying contraption off a cliff. With their friend inside. Don't worry too much. Tommy Fallon, the pilot-to-be, ...

  By Dave Mosher
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  6 Futuristic Musical Instruments Built In 72 Hours

  In this year's Red Bull Creation challenge, makers built musical instruments in just three days.

  ... Yesterday six teams of makers built futuristic musical instruments, conceived of ...
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  Red Bull Creation: Create The Future, Episode 1

  Meet Ryan Doyle

  ... teams of makers competed to build, well, great stuff. To get ... Hack A Day team, with its dueling labyrinth tables, a sort ...
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  Make Your Mornings Explosive With a Defusable Alarm Clock

  ... Michael Krumpus set out to build an alarm clock that would ... the clock is completely harmless. It's now available as a $33 ...
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  Simple Project of the Month: Build A Rotating Time-Lapse Camera Stand

  A panning platform made from a kitchen timer

  ... is a way to easily build yourself an affordable panning device ... for the bushing, and glue it to the bottom of the ...
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  Citizens in Flood Zone Build Homemade Levees to Protect Their Homes

  ... engineering into their own hands, building makeshift levees to keep the ... homes--in fact, in some cases it's the government that's flooding them. ...

  By Clay Dillow
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  Make Your Own Electric Insects with Blinkybugs: The Book

  A new book/kit combo lets you make your own little LED-eyed critters

  ... a simple and brilliant little build. Built around a flat battery, their ... kit/book combo available on Amazon. It's got everything you need to ...

  By Mike Haney
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  Build a Life-Size Paper Clone of Yourself for Under $40

  ... 3-D paper clone of yourself. It's worth checking out if for ...

  By Rebecca Boyle
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  Build Your Own Turbojet? Some People Do

  ... turbochargers into jet engines and building a motorcycle around them. But ... describing how people are building DIY turbojet engines. It also shows his ...

  By Vin Marshall
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  Can This Chinese Farmer's DIY Helicopter Really Fly?

  Reportedly, the wooden copter can soar up to 2,600 feet, but the Chinese government has grounded it for safety reasons

  Anyone who dares to build a helicopter with wooden blades, ... consumers. Wu says that he built the copter based on middle-school ...

  By Jeremy Hsu
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  A Rechargeable, Pocket-Sized 5V Power Supply

  Use this compact component to power anything that needs juice in your DIY projects

  ... : In the coming weeks, I'll build a project that converts a ...
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  Update: Project Building Tips

  Advice for following DIY instructions

  ... tips for helping you successfully build our projects: 1. Never attempt ... look easy to build. But each one can have its own set ...
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  Game On

  Free software lets any computer play hundreds of classic arcade games. So we loaded up an old PC and built a heavy-duty, tricked-out arcade table around it.

  ... our arcade table came together **Build a Classic Arcade Table ** Cost ... take a beating. It's easy to assemble and build one on your ...
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  Build a Backyard Theater

  Construct a high-def front projector for hundreds less than store-bought models

  ... posts photos of their beloved builds. The tradeoff is that Lumenlab ... in-depth photo how-to, click here. Build Your Own Projector ****Cost: $1 ...