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Makezine.com Rules the DIY Web

MAKE is one of the planet’s most popular DIY blogs and RSS feeds, with bloggers like Phil Torrone and Gareth Branwyn, our popular Weekend Projects videos, MAKE and CRAFT video and PDF podcasts, fun contests, and thousands of projects from around the world. Bookmark us, or subscribe via RSS, at blog.makezine.com. Here are a few of our favorite online offerings from recent months:

In his DIY Cymatics video, Collin Cunningham shows how to make a “non-Newtonian fluid” (cornstarch and water) come alive in bizarre, writhing patterns, using sound. See it to believe it, at makezine.com/go/cymatics. And don’t miss Collin’s Make: Presents introductory electronics videos, from the humble resistor to the mighty microchip, at makezine.com/go/makepresents.

For an awesome Weekend Project, build the Night Lighter 36 spud gun from MAKE, Volume 03. Sparked by a stun gun, it launches potatoes 200 yards and lights up with see-through action! Kipkay shows you how at makezine.com/go/nightlighter.

Digital TV is here and people are flocking to make their own DTV antennas as demonstrated by John Park on Make: television. Watch Episode 4 at makezine.com/go/dtv or grab PDF instructions at makezine.com/go/dtvpdf. Even Consumer Reports recommended us!

If you’ve upgraded to HDTV, what do you do with your old set? Becky Stern tracks down DIY ideas for surplus TVs in our weekly Ask MAKE column, at makezine.com/go/surplustv. Email your questions to becky@makezine.com or Twitter @make.

Got a Maker’s Notebook for your ideas? Color your fevered scribblings with the easy Thermochromic Maker’s Notebook hack, at makezine.com/go/thermochromic.

MAKE and CRAFT’s sharp young interns have a great job: make stuff from the magazine and test it out. In Intern’s Corner, they blog weekly about the projects they’re building and the trouble they get into, at blog.makezine.com/archive/interns_corner and blog.craftzine.com/archive/interns_corner.

Check out all the winning projects from MAKE’s killer DIY Halloween contests, and our summertime MAKEcation contests, where families learned how to solder, hack their drink coolers, and build trebuchets. Go to makezine.com/halloweencontest and makezine.com/go/makecations.

Citizen scientists, backyard explorers, teachers, and budding biohackers, our new DIY science destination Make: Science Room was made just for you. With its many resources, use it as your DIY science classroom, virtual laboratory, and a place to share your projects, hacks, and lab tips with other amateur scientists. Hosted by author Robert Bruce Thompson. Go to blog.makezine.com/science_room.

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