It’s easy to feel like climate change is too big of a problem for makers to tackle; I certainly felt this way.

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If your messenger pigeon is on strike because of the cold, you might want to send your party invites via balloon. Some assembly required.

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When 11-year old Audrey Hale found a copy of MAKE: Vol. 24 and decided she wanted to recreate the helium balloon-lofted aerial photography rig for her school science fair project, her mom Laurel told her the materials weren’t in their budget. Undeterred, the Biloxi, Mississippi, 5th grader asked for help launching a Kickstarter campaign to […]

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Registration for this year's Global Space Balloon Challenge has just opened. Do you have what it takes to send a payload into near-space using a high-altitude balloon?

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Throwing a party on New Year's Eve? Ring in 2015 in true handmade style with this fun DIY clock balloon tutorial!

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Need a phone cover in a hurry? Apparently, sheltering your phone is as easy as deflating a balloon, as Youtube user woosung an demonstrates in this handy tutorial video.

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As part of World Space Week, we are proud to announce the 2nd Annual Global Space Balloon Challenge (GSBC), the world’s largest high altitude balloon event! The challenge is simple – coordinate people around the world to design, build, and fly a high altitude balloon anytime between April 10th and April 27th, 2015. In our […]

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Build this battle-tested rig to launch, track, and recover a high-altitude balloon that will carry your hacked Canon camera to the stratosphere. With this setup using APRS ham radio and the Trackuino — an Arduino-based communications board — any hobbyist or science class can photograph (and video) the Earth against the blackness of space, and bring these amazing images home to share.

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Bring some circus-inspired cheer to your next birthday party with this fun balloon animal cake topper tutorial!

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Create beautiful ice sculptures with water balloons while the weather is right.

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