Making electricity

If you've ever seen a professional fireworks show, you know the excitement that it brings. These shows use electric matches to achieve perfect synchronization to the music. For consumer fireworks, making this intricate of a show would be...

Camping Hack: How to Make Fire With Lemon: a perfect scientific experiment for kids to learn electro-chemical reactions and circuitry.

DIY gadgets and cool projects to make to impress friends (or yourself) Easy electronics, tech toys and fun lights, toys, arduino gadget ideas with tutorial.

Make a simple Van de Graaff generator with common household materials

HVAC can account for half the energy used in your home, according to ENERGY STAR. See why it's it’s important to invest in an energy efficient system.

Simple Electric Circuit Hi friends, teaching a 9 yr old the concepts of electricity can be a bit tricky and when the syllabus includes in-depth topics such as electrical circuits, how a switch works ,the mechanisms of a battery etc...it can be quite daunting!! My daughter loves to take charts and models to school though it's not compulsory at all; I often oblige since it's a hands on way of learning and something she is not likely to forget at all!! Simple Electric Circuit Having a stash of…

Brusspup presents some awesome science tricks using static electricity, including how to make a plate hover in the air.

LED Cork Light: Here is a fun way to make some extra LED lighting that you can easily turn off by sliding the battery out when you don't need the light anymore!

MAKE subscriber "Cobbler" sent us this video and a note: Remember the first issue? Here's my video of the homopolar motor project that was featured there.

Kids learn how to make a simple electric motor in this great engineering science fair project that teaches them how current generates its own magnetic field.