build it yourself

 

Make a custom rubber stamp to leave your mark on everything

By Natalie Wallington

 /  Aug 20, 2021

 

Tips to build the safest, most purr-fect catio for your feline overlord

By Haley Weiss

 /  Aug 5, 2021

 

2 DIY Printers That Would’ve Impressed Gutenberg

By Ajai Raj

 /  May 9, 2013

 

How To Build Your Own DIY Water Blaster

By Daniel Dumas

 /  Jun 27, 2013

 

Amp Your Ride

By Doug Costlow, as told to Colleen Park

 /  May 9, 2013

 

Listen To Records With Your Teeth

By Nicole Lou

 /  Mar 25, 2016

 

The 8 Best Student Tech Projects At Microsoft’s Imagine Cup

By Julie Beck

 /  Jul 16, 2013

 

How To Turn A Leftover Candy Cane Into A Sound Machine

By Steph Yin

 /  Dec 28, 2015

 

Grow A Bacterial Zoo In A Bottle

By Steph Yin

 /  Mar 24, 2016

 

Raid Your Kitchen To Build This Potato Chip Speaker [Video]

By William Gurstelle

 /  Mar 14, 2013

 

5 DIY Tricks To Amp Up Your Jack-O’-Lantern

By Samantha Cole

 /  Nov 1, 2016

 

How to build a record player powered by wind

By Thom Leavy

 /  Nov 14, 2016

 

Happy Pi Day! 10 Useful Things You Can Make With A Pie Tin

By Rose Pastore

 /  Mar 14, 2013

 

Meet The Prosthetist Creating Custom-Made Insane Limbs

By Ryan F. Mandelbaum

 /  Oct 10, 2016

 

We asked for your best photos of frozen soap bubbles—and wow, did you deliver

By Sophie Bushwick

 /  Dec 27, 2018

 

How To Track The Lines At Your Polling Place

By Ryan F. Mandelbaum

 /  Nov 9, 2016

 

Hack A Teddy Bear To Say Anything

By Andrew Rosenblum

 /  Jun 10, 2016

 

Watch This Bicycle Go 80 MPH

By Joey Carmichael

 /  Aug 14, 2013

 

How To Build A Smart Home Sensor

By Dave Prochnow

 /  Aug 21, 2015

 

Three Projects That Reinvent Breakfast

By Jeremy S. Cook

 /  May 13, 2016

 

How To Build A Jacob’s Ladder

By William Gurstelle

 /  Mar 11, 2016

 

An Artist Is Growing A Skeleton Human Hand In A Lab

By Meaghan Lee Callaghan

 /  Oct 12, 2016

 

5 MacGyver hacks you should try at home—and 2 you really shouldn’t

By Sophie Bushwick

 /  Dec 7, 2016

 

Beat the heat by building your own slip and slide

By Jean Levasseur

 /  May 31, 2021

 

This Couple Is Hacking The Insulin Pump

By Andrew Rosenblum

 /  Dec 2, 2015

 

Make your own weather station with recycled materials

By Jean Levasseur

 /  May 23, 2021

 

Re-Create The First Intercontinental Weapon

By William Gurstelle

 /  May 9, 2016

 

The 15-Year-Old Inventor Who Launched A Business

By Sophie Bushwick

 /  Sep 11, 2015

 

Set Your Filter To Infrared

By Claire Maldarelli

 /  May 27, 2016

 

The 17-Year-Old Who Makes Walking Safer

By PopSci Staff

 /  Oct 15, 2015

 

How to build a medieval crossbow

By William Gurstelle

 /  May 12, 2017

 

Build a gas-powered marshmallow shooter

By William Gurstelle

 /  Jan 26, 2017

 

Make these tiny, exploding hydrogen bubbles

By William Gurstelle

 /  Oct 13, 2017

 

Here’s how I made my fiancé a blinking engagement ring

By Janet Jay

 /  Dec 12, 2016

 

Literally the most basic clamps you can make

By John Kennedy

 /  Nov 16, 2019

 

How to build an hourglass watchtower

By William Gurstelle

 /  Aug 4, 2017

 

How to build a solar microscope

By William Gurstelle

 /  Jul 27, 2018

 

Craft an impressive cutting board in eight easy steps

By Courtney Starr

 /  May 22, 2020

 

Build your own door and ascend to a higher level of DIY

By Courtney Starr

 /  Nov 20, 2020

 

Build a semi-permanent work surface you can put away easily

By John Kennedy

 /  Nov 10, 2019

 

Build a classy, easy birdbath with vintage finds

By Natalie Wallington

 /  May 6, 2021

 

Let PopSci’s best builds be your first 2020 projects

By John Kennedy

 /  Dec 26, 2019

 

DDR DIY: How to build your own dance game with a Raspberry Pi

By Andy Clark

 /  Jan 9, 2020

 

How to build a drawer out of scrap wood

By John Kennedy

 /  Jan 12, 2020

 

Build the three-legged stool you didn’t know your home needed

By Courtney Starr

 /  Jan 25, 2020

 

Build a floating key organizer cabinet you’ll love coming home to

By David Kaleko

 /  Jan 27, 2020

 

Build your own NAS drive with Raspberry Pi

By Jeremy S. Cook

 /  Oct 25, 2019

 

Mix things up by making a color-changing storm glass

By Lucy Rogers

 /  Nov 22, 2019

 

Make your own concrete flower pots

By Jeremy S. Cook

 /  Jan 3, 2020

 

Upgrade your home with a cozy window seat

By Jose Mendoza

 /  Feb 25, 2020

 

Make a zippered tote bag out of leftover fabric scraps

By Vanessa Nirode

 /  Mar 3, 2020

 

Create a portable workspace by building your own folding saw horses

By John Kennedy

 /  Oct 28, 2019

 

Save space and money with this chop saw conversion project

By John Kennedy

 /  Dec 16, 2019

 

How to build a motion-controlled fan

By Jeremy S. Cook

 /  Aug 11, 2019

 

Build your own drawer organizer

By John Kennedy

 /  Oct 12, 2019

 

The cheapest way to build your own wine rack

By Jose Mendoza

 /  Apr 18, 2020

 

Stay-at-home science project: Whip up a storm in a glass

By John Kennedy

 /  Apr 27, 2020

 

Stay-at-home science project: Leave secret messages with invisible ink

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

 /  Apr 28, 2020

 

Stay-at-home science project: Make ice cream in a bag

By John Kennedy

 /  May 1, 2020

 

Ten great science projects you can do with your kids

By John Kennedy

 /  May 11, 2020

 

This Steampunk Penny Crusher Was Made By Hand

By Rebecca Harrington

 /  Dec 18, 2015

 

How To Turn Your Old Smartphone Into A Smart Mirror

By Lydia Chain

 /  Dec 22, 2015

 

This 9-Year-Old Builds Tiny Houses For The Homeless

By Rebecca Harrington

 /  Dec 22, 2015

 

Watch This Homemade, Gas-Powered Lightsaber Destroy Things

By G. Clay Whittaker

 /  Dec 28, 2015