DIY

Keep your gadgets powered even when the grid fails you

A homemade vertical turbine can supply big power at little cost

Turn your cheapest coins inside out using some hardware-store chemistry

The first shot has been fired in the race to hack the iPhone. Engadget reports that a firmware image is...

When paddling over waterfalls is no longer a thrill, it´s time to add horsepower

Bless the crazy PSP hackers: they’ve been battling with Sony for years to make the PSP run homebrew (read: unapproved)...

Meet Chumby, an open-source touchscreen Internet device that's so customizable (and so soft), you'll want to spend your whole day with it

Photos from the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams Odyssey, an annual program showcasing some of the coolest inventions you'll see anywhere (and they're only in high school)

We’re working on a cool piece about LED art for the magazine, and we wanted to mention Make’s awesome little...

Reader Noah Baird writes in with a 5-Minute Project idea: the guitar cord holder (though it could work with any...