How to Stop Birds from Flying into Your Windows [Crowdhacker]
Ever found a beautiful bird dead outside your home? Chances are it smashed into your window and never recovered. For every dead bird you find, just imagine how many were snatched up by a cat or pulled i...
Build Your Own Vest Lined with Hidden Pockets with Bargain Thrift Store Finds [DIY]
A good fleece vest can keep you warm on a chilly day, but thanks to Instructables user libraryCat, it can also be the ultimate storage device, complete with internal pockets to hold all of your gear. A...
The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Building a Hackintosh [OS X 10.7.4 UniBeast] [Always Up To Date Guide]
Building a hackintosh—that is, installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware—used to require extremely restricted hardware choices and quite a bit of know-how. Now your options are vast and the...
How to Balloon Map Your Neighborhood, Google Maps Style [Video]
Ever felt like Google Maps doesn't provide enough detail of the aerial view of your neighborhood? Ever wanted to make your own maps or participate in a little homegrown science? Balloon mapping is a ch...
Hack a Carabiner with Heat Shrink Tubing to Build the Ultimate Keychain [DIY]
A good carabiner or s-biner makes a great keychain—it can clip to your belt or your bag so you never lose it, and you can keep more than one ring of keys on it if you have to. Plus, it hangs up n...
DIY learning: Schoolers, Edupunks, and Makers challenge education as we know it
Schoolers, Edupunks and Makers are showing us what's possible when learners, not institutions, own the education that will define their lives.
Make a Pair of Safety Goggles Out of a Soda Bottle [DIY]
Need a pair of safety goggles for your next DIY project? Make has a simple way to create some out of a used soda bottle and an elastic band. Here's what you'll need: More »
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Create a Large Mobile Workstation with Built-in Storage out of IKEA Bookshelves and Some Board [DIY]
Need a big space to work? Need lots of storage? Need to be able to move it easily? This IKEA hack from Panyl—a company that's turned IKEA hacking into a business—can provide all three. ...
Making innovation: Open hardware, personal fab and collaborative design
Being held May 15-16, MAKE's Hardware Innovation Workshop is an intensive introduction to the business of making and the makers who are creating these businesses.
Make an Emergency "Get Home Bag" to Keep at Work [Emergencies]
You might already have a 72-hour disaster kit or even a longer-term Doomsday survival kit, but what if you're caught at work when disaster strikes? If you don't already have one, create a survival kit ...
Put Together Your Own Arduino Board (for Half the Price of Buying One) [DIY]
You can make a lot of cool DIY electronics with an Arduino board, but you can actually make your own Arduino for a fraction of the cost—with a bit of room for customizability, too. More &...
