DIY

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Latest DIY Stories

This Exosuit Effortlessly Lifts 400 Pounds

By Sophie Bushwick

/ May 18, 2015

Real-Life Giant Fighting Robots? Yes Please!

By Sophie Bushwick

/ May 18, 2015

How To Build A Soft Robot Hand

By Andrew Terranova

/ Apr 17, 2015

WAVE HELLO TO A SOFT ROBOT HAND

By Andrew Terranova

/ Apr 6, 2015

Practice makes perfect

By Dave Prochnow

/ Jan 14, 2008

Top Tools

By Toolmonger

/ Jan 26, 2008

Supersize your TiVo

By Dave Prochnow

/ Feb 18, 2008

It’s your bag

By Dave Prochnow

/ Feb 20, 2008

Home is where the contests are

By Dave Prochnow

/ Feb 21, 2008

Program Your Next AVR in BASIC

By Dave Prochnow

/ Feb 27, 2008

5 Citizen Science Projects For Springtime

By Chandra Clarke

/ Mar 2, 2015

Add USB Bluetooth on the Cheap

By Dave Prochnow

/ Mar 7, 2008

Science by design(ers)

By Dave Prochnow

/ Apr 9, 2008

I’m Dreaming of a Safe Christmas

By Dave Prochnow

/ Aug 14, 2007

Link Maker, Link Maker, control my Mac

By Dave Prochnow

/ May 6, 2008

Using Drones To Bring Maps To The Masses — DO NOT PUBLISH

By Andrew Rosenblum

/ Dec 17, 2014

Rasberry Pi-Ready Radiation Detector

By Emily Gertz

/ Jun 25, 2014

World Maker Faire 2014: Turning Junk Into Music

By Sophie Bushwick

/ Oct 27, 2014

Raise Your Own Edible Crickets

By Alexandra Ossola

/ Aug 6, 2014

An Insider Account Of The Hack That Saved Apollo 13

/ Sep 11, 2014

Happy Halloween! Enter the contest… before it’s too late…

By PopSci Staff

/ Nov 1, 2008

Give Some Microcontroller Love

By Dave Prochnow

/ Feb 11, 2009

Boo! 2 weeks left: enter the Instructables DIY Halloween contest!

By PopSci Staff

/ Oct 17, 2008

Smart coaster

By Dave Prochnow

/ Nov 17, 2008

The 9 Best Wild Game and Fish Recipes for the Fourth of July

/ Jul 3, 2019

Gray Matter: Hacking Light

By Theodore Gray

/ Jun 3, 2010

Gray Matter: Homemade titanium

By Theodore Gray

/ Dec 18, 2008

Thar She Blows

By Gregory Mone

/ Mar 18, 2019

How Does a Custom Recurve Bow Get Made?

/ Dec 6, 2019

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