Learn how you can crochet your own amigurumi Baymax from the hit animated film Big Hero 6. Try this fun and unique Rainbow Loom version.

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When I was a teen, I did an astronomy (and archeology) summer camp one year. As part of it, we got to spend some nights operating the telescope in the teachers backyard observatory. He had turned a Sears metal garden shed into an impressive little observatory, complete with a motorized […]

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Yasuo Okazaki is an amazing woodworker that makes naruko kokeshi dolls, which he hypnotizingly shapes and paints while they spin on a lathe.

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Ive recently been getting back into tabletop gaming and as part of that have been thinking about finally learning how to airbrush. Ive also been trying to upgrade my whole gaming and modeling areas to make it easier for me to assemble and paint miniatures and play games. In the […]

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Matthew Beresford spent three and a half years constructing a wooden workout machine with a butterfly attachment inspired by Connect Four.

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Im a sucker for multitools, so much so that I have at least a dozen of them in various shapes, sizes, and degrees of worn out. So, I was tickled to see this Instructable on how to turn a typical claw hammer into a multitool. This ultimate hammer includes a […]

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So many hoverboards have surfaced in the past year. Which is the best? Which do we want the most? Check out Lexus, Hendo, Crealev, and Duru.

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These beautiful flowers, made by artist Sakae, appear to be made of glass, but they are actually wire dipped in liquid synthetic resin.

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Artist Balam Soto has been making interactive projects for years. This is his latest: Exp.Inst.Rain, a wavering, touch-controlled instrument.

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Love Hult`en is a Swedish designer who likes to fuse modern high technology with traditional woodworking and shopcraft, creating a unique blend of everyday functionality with pleasing aesthetics and mad fabrication skills. Weve covered Loves amazing work before, in his supersized Lego computers and wooden MAME console, but this workbench […]

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Sean Michael Ragan brings new life to this 20th century industrial desk fan by affixing dyed leather to the blades.

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This 3D printed rubber band launching turret looks like it popped right out of Portal.

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The Raspberry Pi has truly opened up all kinds of possibilities in custom entertainment. One of the most fascinating possibilities lies in replacing the guts of a vintage radio or other media device and enhancing its abilities while keeping the aesthetics of yesterday. Gordon, who studied computer science and works […]

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If the giant fingertips in these images look familiar, thats because they belong to the same crazed maker, New Zealands Lance Abernethy, who 3D printed a miniscule, working power drill last year. Lance is back and this time hes brought his fingernail-sized circular saw. The viral success of his drill […]

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The Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire returns for its seventh year on Saturday, August 8, conveniently coinciding with AS220's Foo Fest.

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Today Punch Through Design launched a Kickstarter campaign for their new Bluetooth LE Arduino-compatible microcontroller board the Bean+.

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Hardware engineering firm Supplyframe buys DIY online marketplace Tindie to sit alongside Hack-A-Day.

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Armed with a Walmart slinky, Matthias Wandel set out to design an infinite slinky escalator, and the resulting machine is hypnotic.

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Maker Daren Banars"e went on a quest to fabricate his ideal melodica. He had to reverse engineer and 3D print it, and the result looks and sounds completely authentic.

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The parser drill (a precursor to the CNC milling machine) is capable of drilling a hole in just about any shape, including sharp corners.

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