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DIY projects you can build yourself, featuring detailed instructions accessible for a wide range of skills and abilities.

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Hacking Microsoft’s Kinect: Two Weeks In, Six Amazing Projects
DIY

Hacking Microsoft’s Kinect: Two Weeks In, Six Amazing Projects

By Dan Nosowitz

You Built What?! A Supersize Robotic Chess Set
Technology

You Built What?! A Supersize Robotic Chess Set

By Gregory Mone

Urbee Is the First Car Made By a 3-D Printer
Technology

Urbee Is the First Car Made By a 3-D Printer

By Julie Beck

Gray Matter: In Which I Set Myself On Fire
DIY

Gray Matter: In Which I Set Myself On Fire

By Theodore Gray

Video: DIY Coilgun Turns Voltage into Kilojoule Projectile Power
DIY

Video: DIY Coilgun Turns Voltage into Kilojoule Projectile Power

By Clay Dillow

A Husband and Wife Build a 19th-Century Wooden Submarine
DIY

A Husband and Wife Build a 19th-Century Wooden Submarine

By Gregory Mone

Gray Matter: In Which I Fully Submerge My Hand in Liquid Nitrogen [Video]
DIY

Gray Matter: In Which I Fully Submerge My Hand in Liquid Nitrogen [Video]

By Theodore Gray

Gray Matter: How to Start a Fire With Only Compressed Air
DIY

Gray Matter: How to Start a Fire With Only Compressed Air

How it Works: The Artillery-Grade 600 MPH Pumpkin Cannon
DIY

How it Works: The Artillery-Grade 600 MPH Pumpkin Cannon

By Amanda Schupak

Build a Pro-Level Parts Washer for $75
DIY

Build a Pro-Level Parts Washer for $75

By Vin Marshall

How to Build My Newest Air Cannon
DIY

How to Build My Newest Air Cannon

By Vin Marshall

The Shocking Truth: How To Make High-Voltage Sparks
DIY

The Shocking Truth: How To Make High-Voltage Sparks

By Vin Marshall

Get Medieval: How to Build a Metal Forge
DIY

Get Medieval: How to Build a Metal Forge

By Vin Marshall

Home-Brewing Biochar in Brooklyn
DIY

Home-Brewing Biochar in Brooklyn

By Brooke Borel

A lamp made out of a mold from a plastic bottle, based on a 1961 article in Popular Science magazine.
DIY

Bright Idea: The plastic bottle lamp

By Joel Barnard

An iPhone with app icons visible.
DIY

How to make an iPhone app: part 2

By Dave Prochnow

A person holding a white iPod.
DIY

New music from an old iPod

By Laura Silver

A man in blue Popular Science coveralls holding a dumbbell made out of old CDs, pointing at the camera, and yelling.
DIY

PopSci 5-Minute Project video: CD dumbbell

By Popular Science Team

Three thin rectangular cork-plugged bottles in a row, the left one nearly full of red vinegar, the middle one half full of yellow vinegar, and the right one about a quarter full of orange vinegar.
DIY

Making vinegar at home

By Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot

A packet of freeze-dried ice cream with a photo of an astronaut on the packaging.
Science

If it’s good enough for astronauts, it’s good enough for us

By Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot

Pectin: not just for jelly
DIY

Pectin: not just for jelly

By Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot

A DIY pocket theremin.
DIY

Build a pocket theremin on the cheap

By Dave Prochnow

A WowWee Roboraptor with a flame coming out of its mouth to toast some charred marshmallows.
DIY

A fire-breathing bot

By Dave Prochnow

A monkey mask on the ground next to a skinned robotic monkey head.
DIY

Scare tactics

By Theodore Gray and Paul Wallich

An original black Xbox hooked up to a flat-screen TV and displaying Xbox Media Center (XBMC).
DIY

Xbox media monster

By Mike Haney

A solar-powered WiFi extender near someone using a device in a hammock outside. Illustration.
DIY

Network your backyard

By Mike Outmesguine

A person purifying silicon in a glass bowl. Top: burning magnesium in a mushroom cloud of white smoke; middle top: burning hydrogen as a flame; middle bottom: burning silane gas as white bursts; bottom: falling silicon particles.
DIY

Making silicon from sand

By Theodore Gray