Weekend Workshop: Make Max Rockatansky jealous with these DIY steampunk goggles
Whether you're already thinking about this year's Burning Man or simply crave some 19th century clothing apparel, these DIY steampunk goggles are for you.
Corsair’s Bulldog, Lapdog take a bite out of the gaming console competition
Corsair revealed two new products: the Bulldog kit for system builders and Lapdog, a lapboard for PC gaming on the couch. Full Bulldog systems arrive soon.
Weekend Workshop: Tear up your driveway with this Raspberry Pi-powered RC car
Drones are great, sure, but who wouldn't enjoy ripping a DIY RC car around their neighborhood? Here's how to easily construct one in a matter of hours.
Make your own DIY Polaroid camera with a Rasberry Pi and a receipt printer
This clever instant camera made from a Raspberry Pi computer and a thermal printer, stuffed inside a cardboard box.
Never mind stirring, fire up a chainsaw blender!
For an outrageous do-it-yourself weekend project, combine a motorcycle handle bar, a chainsaw, and a blender. Then just stand back and blend away.
Weekend Workshop: Caffeinate in style with this DIY cold-brew coffee drip tower
Who doesn't love cold-brew coffee? Build your own Arduino-powered cold-brew drip tower in a matter of hours with this simple, comprehensive walk-through.
Think the Raspberry Pi is underpowered? Here’s 10 projects that prove you wrong
The Raspberry Pi is an amazing device. Check out some of our favorite Pi projects out there, whether you want to create a game console or virtual rhino.
Captain America superfan created an electromagnet shield that bounces back
A Captain America fan and Hacksmith tinkerer created an electromagnetic shield that bounces back to his arm, just like Steve Rogers' shield in the movies.
Weekend Workshop: Play the ultimate skill game with this one-hole elliptical pool table
Traditional six-hole billiards tables are excellent tests of talent, no doubt, but this one-hole elliptical pool table is truly a game of incredible skill.
Weekend Workshop: How to install LED joystick lights on a PlayStation controller
Jazz up your boring Sony-issued DualShock controller with this easy walkthrough on how to install LED lights on each of the controller's joysticks.
Mad scientist Colin Furze built a hoverbike and (somehow) didn’t lose his limbs
Backyard inventor and Yotuber Colin Furze made a hoverbike in his garage, flew it around the British countryside, and somehow didn't die.
Weekend Workshop: Piece together the Triforce with this Zelda coffee table
Honor Shigeru Miyamoto's iconic Legend of Zelda franchise the right way by building this DIY mosaic-tiled and Zelda-inspired coffee table this weekend.
Weekend Workshop: How to build a delightfully retro Tetris lamp
Since its debut in 1984, Tetris has been everywhere. Now, thanks to an easy walkthrough on Instructables, anyone can have a Tetris-style lamp in their home.
Upgrades and replacement parts are just a few clicks away with this customizable 3D printed drone
Modular, customizable 'Mosquito' drone is made almost entirely from 3D printed parts and comes in two versions: one for DIY assembly, and one ready to fly.
Weekend Workshop: How to build an uber hip DIY turntable wall clock
Have an old turntable gathering dust in the attic? Why not put it to good use by fashioning it into a beautifully functioning wall clock.
British mad scientist Colin Furze just built a fully operational thermite cannon
Real-life mad scientist Colin Furze is back yet again, this time with an innovative DIY cannon built specially for launching combustible thermite canisters.
Weekend Workshop: Detect radio waves (and nuclear detonations) with this DIY coherer
By using tech made popular in the early 1900s, anyone with a 3V battery, metal shavings, and electrical wiring can easily build a coherer energy detector.
Learn how to build your own Amazon Echo
Thanks to the genius of collaborative thinking at GitHub, there's now a full set of instructions on how to get Alexa to work on a Raspberry Pi.
Weekend Workshop: Wrap modern tech in retro style with a DIY Bluetooth Boombox
Bose makes a great Bluetooth speaker, no doubt, but why not try building one yourself? Here's how to build a Bluetooth boombox in a matter of hours.
Weekend Workshop: How to build a Retro gaming console from a Raspberry Pi 2
Even owners of a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One enjoy playing a retro game every once in a while, and here's how to fashion one out of a Raspberry Pi 2.
The Aerocool Dream Box is only limited by your imagination
Aerocool's new Dream Box isn't the only PC case you have to build yourself, but it might be the only one that lets you build it however you like.
Meet the Ardumower: a 3D-printed robotic lawn mower you can build for under $300
The Ardumower is a DIY robotic lawn mower that you can print and assemble yourself for about $250-$300.
DIY syringe-powered airsoft rifle is powerful enough to shatter glass
DIYer Patrick Priebe of Selfmade has a new creation that uses a standard syringe as the backbone for a homemade pump-action airsoft gun.
Build your own 3D printer for $50 and change
Instead of waiting for prices on 3D printers to drop, you can build your own for less than $100.
ToyLabs makes STEM fun with its DIY, solar-powered airplane
Let your kids build, launch and fly with the new Volta Flyer, a solar toy airplane designed by educational toy maker ToyLabs.
This guy’s ridiculous homemade rail gun shoots ‘ionized plasma’ bullets
Of all the crazy garage-built weapons I've ever come across, this one from YouTuber/tinkerer Alex Smyth is definitely one of the craziest.
You can finally preorder this ridiculous leaf-blower-powered hoverboard
Instead of using fancy supercooled magnets and elaborate metal-covered skate ramps to levitate, Mr. Hoverboard employs four downward-facing leaf blowers.
Tempescope is a little box of rain you can leave on your coffee table
Weather apps are one thing, but this gizmo that pulls forecast data from the Internet and recreates it on your desk is entirely another
This crazy hobbyist built a flyable 54-rotor personal helicopter from drone parts
Someone in the United Kingdom just unveiled a brilliant, 54-propeller drone that possesses the ability to not only fly, but to fly with the man on board.