The Workshop

The Workshop’ celebrates the inventors, hobbyists, and weekend engineers bringing their wildest projects to life. From a backyard baseball stadium to a teacher who spent 1800 hours building a hovercraft, these stories showcase the creativity, dedication, and joy of building something just because you can—a tradition Popular Science has highlighted for decades.

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An old DC-6 cargo plane converted into lodging rests in the snow under a glowing aurora, its windows and engines illuminated against a dark, starry winter sky.
Aviation

A pilot turned an old plane into a two-bedroom apartment

By Laura Kiniry

A man wearing glasses and a light T-shirt with an Atari logo is reflected in a window as he adjusts a narrow digital LED screen that displays the text "Arriving in 7 minutes" in red. The man is looking up at the screen, and the interior of the building is visible through the window.
Vehicles

Philly’s ‘transit vigilante’ created a real-time bus tracker for his neighbors

By Laura Kiniry

Two men are standing behind an enormous, pale orange Atlantic Giant pumpkin, with their hands resting on it. They are inside a large greenhouse structure, surrounded by green vines and leaves. Both men are smiling and wearing casual t-shirts and jeans.
Agriculture

Giant pumpkin growers face off for world gourd domination

By Diana Hubbell

A nighttime photograph shows a suburban house transformed into a dramatic haunted house display, illuminated by intense purple and blue lighting. The front lawn is covered with numerous Halloween decorations, including glowing ghosts, demonic gargoyles flanking a sign that reads "THE VENEZIALE MANOR," skeletons, and lighted pumpkin figures. A bright moon or spotlight shines in the upper right.
Projects

Teen turns his suburban home into elaborate haunted house every October

By Laura Kiniry

a station wagon in a driveway
Projects

A life-long car lover recreated the Griswold’s famous station wagon

By Laura Baisas

a tyrannosaur skeleton on display in a musuem
Archaeology

Amateur paleontologist opens fossil museum in rural Minnesota

By Sara Kiley Watson

teen boy standing next to two hexagonal structures filled with bees
Projects

This teen 3D-printed a beehive for his bedroom

By Mack DeGeurin

man pulling down interior
Projects

Texas brothers buy abandoned Boeing 727 for $10,000

By Mack DeGeurin

circa 1942: A U.S. Air Force B-17 'Flying Fortress' bomber flies through the sky, World War II. The aircraft was used extensively in Allied air raids, such as those against Hamburg and Dresden, and battles against German aircraft. (Photo by R. Gates/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Aviation

Illinois man has spent 40 years rebuilding a WWII-era B-17 bomber

By Mack DeGeurin

a red hovercraft vehicle sits on the mud with two occupants in the cabin
Projects

Teacher spends 1800 hours building the hovercraft of his childhood dreams

By Keith Wagstaff

a giant bumper car
Motorcycles

This giant bumper car is street-legal and enormously delightful

By Rob Verger