Weekend Workshop: Electrify your meat with this DIY hot dog cooker
Although BBQ season is in the rearview, this DIY electric hot dog cooker assures there's no need to give up on enjoying perfectly cooked franks.
Weekend Workshop: Build an old-school lightbulb from pencil lead and a jar
Piece together your own electric light bulb this weekend using little more than eight D-cell batteries, a glass Mason jar, and a graphite pencil needle.
Weekend Workshop: How to easily build a DIY hand-powered LED flashlight
With little more than an old soda can, some LED lights, and a 12V DC motor, anyone has the ability to easily build their own hand-powered LED flashlight.
Up, up, and away: 4 high-flying rockets you can build at home
Building a rocket may seem like a daunting task, especially if you don't know where to start. Fortunately, we've found four of the best homemade designs.
Weekend Workshop: How to make a kick-ass pocket slingshot in an hour
Using nothing more than a hacksaw, an old soda bottle, and a balloon, anyone with a few minutes this weekend can make their own pocket slingshot.
Spare your camera gear from rain and snow with this extremely cheap trick
Photographer Benjamin Jaworskyj shows how a simple plastic bag and a rubber band can be used to protect your camera gear for less than a dollar.
Weekend Workshop: Become champ of your office with this DIY Nerf rocket launcher
Be the envy of your office whenever a random Nerf dart war breaks out with this easy-to-build DIY Nerf rocket launcher made out of PVC piping.
Weekend Workshop: Light up your love for arcade games with a DIY marquee lightbox
Considering the universal love for retro video games, there's no better way to show appreciation for your favorite classic title than this DIY lightbox.
Towels make a cheap solution for DIY sound-absorption panels
Bad audio can seriously harm an otherwise strong video, but it turns out that simple bath towels can do a great job of absorbing sound and reducing reverb.
Ikea's $8 Lack table makes for one simple DIY product photography booth
In its latest video, DSLR Video Shooter shows how you can easily build a product photography booth using IKEA’s $8 Lack side table.
Weekend Workshop: Hit every PokéStop in town with this DIY bike phone mount
Finding Pokemon via your bike can as quickly spell disaster for your phone as it can produce a Charmander. Here's how to build your own bicycle phone mount.
LittleBits’ Rule Your Room is a Lego-like construction kit for young inventors
Need to keep the kids entertained? Here's a $100 Lego-like kit from LittleBits that will let them build all sorts of electronic inventions.
Weekend Workshop: How to build a DIY wooden gramophone for your iPhone 6S
With summer in full swing, nothing says backyard BBQ quite like a solid smartphone speaker. To make you the envy of your block, here's how to make your own.
This homemade flying chair is the stuff dangerous dreams are made of
Swedish engineer Axel Borg, a.k.a. the brains behind YouTube channel Amazing DIY Projects, has built his own homemade flying machine.
Weekend Workshop: Survive The Wasteland with these ‘Fallout’ DIY Nuka-Cola caps
Made popular via Bethesda's Fallout franchise, Nuka-Cola caps are the cream of the currency crop across The Wasteland. Here's how you can make your own.
Robotic camera dolly upcycled from a wheelchair and other parts
Who has $18,000 to buy a robotic camera dolly? Eric Beck from Indy Mogul designed a robotic camera dolly for 360 video with some interesting parts.
Weekend Workshop: Stave off the heat this summer with a DIY smart electric fan
The electric fan needed an upgrade and a savvy engineer at Instructables devised a way to make a person sensing smart fan using a Raspberry Pi.
Machine whips up breakfast for you, took only 1,000 hours to build
Two men determined to please their wives constructed a machine that makes breakfast. It's a real time-saver that only took 1,000 hours to build.
MakersKit to take its DIY kits further with the Techstars Retail Accelerator
MakersKit, a company that creates DIY project kits, was selected to join the Techstars Retail Accelerator at Target and has relocated to participate.
Weekend Workshop: Turn a pile of cardboard into a backyard geodesic dome
Essentially a 21st Century tree house, geodesic domes don't offer much outside of being a fun place to hang out. Here's how to make one using cardboard.
Edo blocks are the giant cardboard Legos you’ve always wanted
Launching via Kickstarter this week, Edo blocks are essentially giant cardboard Legos that offer users the ability to build anything from forts to giraffes.
Weekend Workshop: End backyard buzzing with a mosquito trap made from a tire
With Zika and other mosquito-borne illnesses causing a bit of a raucous lately, this DIY mosquito trap using an old car tire is the perfect weekend project.
How to upgrade your camera bag zippers for less than $5
In his latest video, Caleb Pike of DSLR Video Shooter shows how a few small pieces of paracord can be used to upgrade the zippers of your camera bag.
Weekend Workshop: How to build a DIY solar charger out of Altoid tins
This easy-to-make DIY solar charger assures you'll never have to leave home and worry about a "Low Battery" alert on your smartphone ever again.
Are you frustrated with connecting your camera via HDMI? Try these ribbon cables
If you have ever had to connect HDMI to your camera, then you know how frustrating it can be. These ribbon cables solve the issue on the cheap.
Stress out your system with new 3DMark tests for identifying faulty hardware
On Monday, Futuremark said that 3DMark Advanced and 3DMark Professional now include dedicated stress tests to check system cooling and hunt down problems.
Smart cat wheel injects Raspberry Pi tech into your cat's workout
A Fitbit might not be the best fitness tracker for your cat — this DIY project offers a much better solution.
Weekend Workshop: How to turn your old laptop into an LED wall lamp
Broken laptops collecting dust in a closet are as common as anything, so why not turn that old piece of hardware into an LED wall lamp? Here's how.
Weekend Workshop: Become a hipster and build this DIY vinyl record player
Vinyl records are in but instead of buying a record player off the shelf like every other bearded hipster, why not build your own DIY turntable? Here's how.
Give your skateboard a boost by hooking it up to a battery-operated drill
You already have a skateboard. If you want to boost it, add electric drive with a battery-powered drill. It might look odd, but you're the one having fun.
This dead-simple DIY GoPro backpack mount costs almost nothing to make
YouTuber Kyle Martin shows how a few dollars in materials and an hour of time can make for an extremely effective backpack mount for your GoPro camera.
Classic Pong game gets mechanical makeover
The classic game of Pong has been brought to life again thanks to the creative genius of Daniel Perdomo, who created a coffee-table version of the game.
Science teacher sits back while son cuts the grass with clever go-kart lawnmower
Inventor, engineer, and science teacher Jacob Strickling rigged three lawnmowers behind his son's solar go-kart then sat and watched the yard get mowed.