Category: Projects

Make an Origami Box in 90 Seconds

Here is a fairly simple origami project that can be used to make a gift box.  Perfect for a cub scout den project.  With a little imagination, you can turn this into a really neat box. You can use the…

Ninjabread Men Cookie Cutters

Fred & Friends Ninjabread Men is an innovatively designed cookie cutter set. The 3 different cutters are in classic ninja attack poses. Baked they are extremely funny and lend themselves to imaginative decoration possibilities.  Includes a cookie recipe on the…

Hot Wire Foam Cutter

I made a home made version of this hot wire foam cutter with an old battery charger, stainless cable, and a big resistor.  My sons will play with it for hours.  I use a box fan to exhaust any of…

Fully Automatic Sling Shot

Gatling guns have been the first firearms with a firing rate close to modern machine guns. Their principle is easy: A set of rotating barrels is turned by cranking a wheel, with one barrel after the other firing a round…

Beginning Robotics – Resistors

If you have ever taken an electronic gadget apart, you have probably seen these guys: This is a resistor.  From the name you might guess what a resistor does: it resists the flow of electric current.  Resistors are kind of…