How to Dice Onions
If you use onions as often as I do – in everything from soup and pasta sauce to tuna salad and guacamole – it helps to be able to dice...
Posted by Paul Stern
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Skill Builder
Capacitor Rebuilding for Fun or Profit
I restore antique radios to make the cash I need to play with my toys. Audiophiles are happy, so is my wallet. Mainly we do this simply because the ‘original’...
Posted by Don Fox
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Make Straight Wood Cuts with a Miter Box
It’s possible to draw a fairly straight line with a pencil, but if you want to be accurate, you must use a ruler or straightedge to guide the pencil as...
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder
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Kitty-Cat Braids
A couple of weeks ago my daughter was trying to figure out what to be for Halloween, and it came down to either a black cat or a zombie. Immediately...
Posted by Carla
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Animatronic Pokemon Props
Making moving props out of wire and solder and servos.
Posted by alex camilo
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Apple Cider
One crisp Autumn afternoon I had the privilege of joining MAKE founder Dale Dougherty as he used his wooden apple press to make cider from the apples that grow on...
Posted by Nick Raymond
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Omni-Stand Tutorial for 1/300 scale P51D Mustang
This project will show you how to mount small (1/300 scale) aircraft to the Omni-Stand mounts. Once the mounts are properly attached then it will work with all the Omni-Stand...
Posted by Jonathan Bowen
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Fun with Transistors
Playing with transistors lets you in on what makes just about everything in our world work. Transistors are easy to work with, requiring just a few basic steps. In most...
Posted by Steven Robert Cypherd
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Laptopogram
A laptopogram is a screenshot produced by exposing photosensitive paper (or even film) to your computer screen or other electronic display. You may want to make one for instance if...
Posted by Christoph
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Dye Your Own Yarn, Naturally
Natural dyeing is a great way to learn more about the plants growing around you, as well as how your yarn is processed. Most commercially dyed wool is done so...
Posted by Emily Smith
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Perfect Polka Dots
This article is originally posted at Stylehive.com. Have you been seeing spots these days? This popular print is making fashion waves on the runway and the streets during Fashion Week....
Posted by Sarah Palin
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Low-Fume Plastic Bag Forging
Using a double-boiler method, HDPE bags are forged into workable sheets of solid plastic. This improves on a previous iteration by not using vegetable oil impregnated into the material.
Posted by Michael Colombo
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