MAKE's science and chemistry author, Robert Bruce Thompson, has a new installment of his video series The Home Scientist, on acquiring chemicals for...

Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, from user safoocat. Ever get tired of those fake chrome faucet fixtures that end up leaking and you can't fix th...

Blow-molding (Wikipedia) is an thermoplastic forming process in which a hot polymer pre-form is injected with gas to press it against the inside o...

Jan Lategahn (Germany) has put together a series of articles and links describing simple ways to calibrate amateur electronic instruments with a f...

Our pal Derek "Deek" Diedricksen, of Tiny Yellow House and RelaxShacks.com, sent us a video tour of his 100% indie-produced, "trash-funded" book, Hu...

This contactless tachometer project is based on an ATMEGA48 AVR micro controller, and is able to measure very high RPMs, as well as very low ones. I...

Matt Sarnoff wrote in to share his homebrew Ultim809 computer. Based around the slightly unusual Motorola 6809 processor, he's creating the entire...

Instructables user Blackdog Barker constructed this personalized iPad case from a piece of wood, an old leather jacket, and some other various bits. ...

Anyone who's traveled with homemade electronics, breadboarded circuits, mint tin projects, or other DIY tech, knows how unnerving it can be going ...

If you aren't savvy to the phenomenon that is Club-Mate, it's a caffeinated tea beverage brewed in Germany that's been adopted by the hacker scene i...