The 2025 Edition of The Maker’s Field Guide nearly doubles the original’s content, diving deeper into areas like prototyping, injection molding, mass manufacturing, robotics, and startup know-how. Whether you’re building cosplay props or launching a product, this travel-friendly volume is packed with tools, tips, and insights for makers and DIYers at any skill level.

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Designed by Aaron Chow, the V1 Vixiv Invixiball is a hollow lattice ball manufactured using laser-sintered grade 5 titanium. Designed for daily handling and engineered to bounce, it’s light as a quarter but strong enough to dent hardwood. Adapted from 18th-century geometry, it’s made for flicking, tossing, or pocketing. Just don’t drop it on anything […]

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UCO’s smartly designed aluminum tent stakes have built in LED illumination so you can not only see what you’re doing if you have to put up a tent at night, but provides area light for up to 10 hours, and a 24-hour strobe mode to help you find your way back to your campsite. Price […]

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Drone photography has given us new perspectives on the world around us. There’s a way to create a similar camera effect when capturing microscopic images. Steve Mould shows how a Hirox digital microscope’s rotary head attachment enables it to fly around objects like a miniature drone. The detailed 3D views it captures are truly eye-opening.

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This elegant modern writing instrument is crafted from titanium with metal parts. Its long, tapered tip makes drawing easier against a straight edge, and the pen is perfectly balanced for comfort and smooth writing. A knurled barrel provides exceptional grip, and interchangeable tips convert it into a scalpel, screwdriver, everlasting pencil, and more.

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Brainfoo TV shows off a fun desktop toy that can run all day and night on solar power. He started by hacking apart a dancing flower toy, then 3D printed parts, and attached a solar panel and a supercapacitor to store energy. That powers an electromagnet that keeps its spinner upright and rotating 24 x […]

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