Make Primer: Working with Carbon Fiber (PDF) | |||||||
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Form, lay up, and cure your own high-performance composites. | |||||||
Make Primer: Moldmaking (PDF) | |||||||
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Mythbusters' Adam Savage teaches you how the pros replicate objects. | |||||||
Make Primer: Printed Circuit Boards (PDF) | |||||||
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Step-by-step instructions for making your own PCBs at home. | |||||||
Make Primer: Welding (PDF) | |||||||
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Mister Jalopy's excellent primer explains the process and shows how you can be a welder by the end of the weekend — and end up with a couple of jigs for the effort. | |||||||
Make Projects: DIY Coffee (PDF) | |||||||
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Got a jones for caffeine and technology? Mod your espresso machine to dial in the perfect shot, with precise temperature control and a filter hack that kicks out maximum tasty crema. Roast your own with a hand-built custom coffee roaster. Hack a toaster timer to perfect-brew your tea every time. And fire up your coffee pot from the internet using X10 automation. | |||||||
Make Projects: The Brain Machine (PDF) | |||||||
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Ride your own brain waves! You don't have to be a Buddhist monk to meditate, or a Sleeping Beauty to sleep well. Achieve these altered states of consciousness, and others, with this simple microcontroller device. | |||||||
Make Projects: Cigar Box Guitar (PDF) | |||||||
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This sweet-sounding, three-stringed mini guitar revives an American musical tradition that uses only one power tool and common hardware. | |||||||
Make Projects: Compressed Air Rocket (PDF) | |||||||
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Blow your friends away as you send this 25-cent rocket hundreds of feet in the air! | |||||||
Make Projects: Nightlighter 36 Spud Gun (PDF) | |||||||
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The potato cannon, a.k.a. the spud gun, is a popular and very entertaining amateur science project. It's simple to make, and few devices offer such bang for the buck. | |||||||
Make Projects: Stirling Engine (PDF) | |||||||
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Make Projects: The Stirling engine has long captivated inventors and dreamers. Here are complete plans for building and operating a two-cylinder model that runs on almost any high-temperature heat source. |