Strip Wire
HOW TO: Strip wire with a vegetable knife with Stefan.
You will need a wooden board or hard surface that's ok for cutting. A vegetable knife or sharp knife.
Length: 1 minute 20 seconds
Make a Wooden Battery Box
HOW TO: Make a Wooden Battery Box
You will need our "Go Motor" kit or else any of our kits that use a single 1xAA Battery Box.
We want to be more eco-friendly so we've designed our own 1xAA wooden battery box. This is durable and can be taped or screwed or tacked to many inventions.
We avoid button cell batteries because these are very dangerous for pets and children as well.
Length: 2 minute 38 seconds
Make a Wooden Torch: PART 1
HOW TO: Make our Wooden Torch Kit. Part 1 is wiring up the electronics.
You will need PVA glue (good quality), Phillips screwdriver and 3xAA batteries.
Length: 6 minute 26 seconds
Make a Wooden Torch: PART 2
HOW TO: Make our Wooden Torch Kit. Part 2 is putting the wooden pieces together. You can figure this out yourself but Stefan gives a few tricks so that your torch is really firm and durable.
Length: 8 minute 9 seconds
Wiring Up the Christmas Tree
HOW TO: Extra details to help you successfully wire up your Wooden Christmas Sparkle Tree.
You will need a Phillips screwdriver and 3xAA batteries for this project. If your batteries get hot or start to smoke, you know the wiring is incorrect. This video should help clarify the wiring!
Length: 7 minute 48 seconds
NEW: Make a Felt Bird Bag Kit
HOW TO: Make a felt bird bag.
You will need our Felt Bird Bag Kit. This kit features our Tauhou/Silvereye kit.
This tutorial takes you all the way from threading the needle, sewing on buttons and the order to sew your kit.
Length: 24 minutes 55 seconds
DIY Bluetooth Speaker: Part 1
HOW TO: Make a Bluetooth Speaker
You will need our DIY Bluetooth Speaker Kit.
Part one is mostly about wiring up the battery box correctly. This is very important. If you wire it incorrectly, it may damage or destroy your Bluetooth Module.
Length: 8 minute 57 seconds
DIY Bluetooth Speaker: Part 2
HOW TO: Make a Bluetooth Speaker - Part 2.
You will need our DIY Bluetooth Speaker Kit.
Part Two is mostly about the order of the wooden pieces. It is a tightly fitting box (because we don't want sound escaping) so it does help to know a good order to glue it altogether. These videos also feature our updated version with our new back and battery box.
Length: 8 minute 31 seconds
Hack That Kit! Hack the Marshmallow Launcher
HOW TO: Make a Spinning Car From the Marshmallow Launcher Kit
You will need 1xAA batteries, an extra 'pin nail' (like the kind that you use for hanging pictures) and some blu-tack - as well as the pieces from your Marshmallow Launcher 3000! kit. Of course, if you have 2 motors, a battery and switch, I'm sure you can put something together without needing the kit. Lego wheels are always a great fallback.
I'll tell you a secret, I meant for the car to go forward but wasn't concentrating on my wiring. After it spun around in a circle, I thought that was quite cool - so I left it. I challenge YOU to work out how to make it go forwards!
Length: 2 mins 30 secs
Make a Powered Lego Car
HOW TO: Make a Powered Lego Car
You will need 2xAA batteries, a fan and a switch for this project. You'll also need an awesome, completely unique Lego car - so maybe work on that now.
Tip: make it as light as possible with wheels that are as frictionless as possible. Even 2xAAs won't give that much power so it needs to be light!
Length: 35 seconds
Make a Desk Fan
HOW TO: Make a Desk Fan
You will need a fan from an old computer plus 3xAA battery box. We used our Sparkle Christmas Tree kit which also included a switch.
You can use what you have at home. A paperclip works as a switch and an old toy might have a 3xAA battery box! Our fan said it needed 5volts but went ok on 4.5volts from our batteries.
Length: 1 minute 36 seconds
Make an Art Spinner
HOW TO: Make an Art Spinner Using Tinker Tiles
You will need either our "Go Motor" kit or a kit that already uses a battery box, motor and switch (Gecko Kit, Marshmallow Launcher or Doodle Noodle Drawbot).
You can also use what you have at home. A paperclip works as a switch and you may have an old toy that you can open up to cut out the motor and AA battery box!
Length: 1 minute 26 seconds