How to Change a Macbook Pro battery Quickly and Easily With Kite String
With kite string, fingernail polish, and careful computer positioning, you can sidestep the challenging disassembly to remove your depleted MacBook battery.
Fun with Shoe-Goo: Reinforcing Skate Sneakers With Leather Scraps
Growing up one of the tricks we’d do to protect our sneakers would be cutting the suede or leather tongue off an old shoe and glueing it to the spot where you’d get a hole from ollieing. It worked incredibly well! The Vision Street…
Wonderfully Simple Joby Gorillapod Broken Leg Fix
It’s pretty great what you can do with simple heat shrink tubing!
How I Fixed My Shaking iPhone 6S Plus Rear Camera
If your iPhone camera is shaking you can buy a cheap replacement camera and fix it yourself, despite Apple saying it is non-serviceable.
Make a Skull from your CT Scan
Call the radiology or imaging department and ask them for your data, then process it in easy software and send it to the printer. Easy!
Catapult madness at the Craftsman Makecation
This is the story of the time I built a trebuchet and launched water balloons over the the Lake Arrowhead lodge.
This beer-powered Slug trap Totally Works
Where I live, we seem to get an abundance of slugs. I let the trails across the driveway and garage door pass, but once they started chewing through all the seedlings in the garden, I decided I needed to do some population control. There…
Oversized Halloween Witch Silhouette
Last Halloween my wife showed me a Halloween lawn ornament she liked and asked if I could make one like it. Challenge accepted. I began by searching on the internet for witch silhouettes. I found an image of one that looked particularly spooky and…
Video Roundup: More DIY Skate Ramps
It’s been a while since I’ve run through the resources for building skate ramps that exist online. And with so many now appearing on Youtube, I’ll focus this post on those plans and builds that appear there in video form. Let me know if…
Quick Fix: Broken Laundry Rack
Our favorite way to dry our clothes broke, so I put the 3D printer to use to bring it back.
Hi, I'm Mike. I’m the executive editor of Make: magazine, and host of Discovery channel’s Punkin' Chunkin' and Catch It Keep It, TV shows where I build and explain crazy machines that crush stuff, blow things up, shoot fire, all in the name of science.
I've previously worked at Wired and ReadyMade magazines, writing about how to utilize new technology in our everyday lives.
This site is where I keep a list of instructions for fun projects I've done, am working on, or draw inspiration from. I encourage everyone to get involved — get up and do something!