The Remarkable Redneck Air Force of North Carolina
The relief effort after Hurricane Helene is powered by private citizens, and volunteers have discovered that it's better to ask forgiveness than permission.
The relief effort after Hurricane Helene is powered by private citizens, and volunteers have discovered that it's better to ask forgiveness than permission.
Avoiding regulation, DIYBio becomes cheaper and more available.
Thanks to clever inventions and investments from venture capitalists, the average American can head to CVS and purchase kits to test for drug use, sexually transmitted diseases, AIDs, diabetes, blood pressure and cholesterol.
Senior Editor Jacob Sullum examines how the claim that Japanese gun restrictions account for the country's low violent crime rate isn't as simple as it sounds.
A new history, Dirty Pictures, explores how underground comix revolutionized art and exploded censorship once and for all.
The ATF is expected to adopt a new rule requiring that the metal parts hobbyists used to manufacture their DIY weapons be registered as legal firearms. So Cody Wilson made those parts unnecessary.
Improve your skills! Bond with the kids! Infuriate control freaks!
Regulations might reshape DIY gun products, but they can’t eliminate the demand that created the industry.
"There's this growing gap between what's on paper and what is enforceable in law," says Kareem Shaya, the co-founder of Open Source Defense.
Making masks, face shields, and other protective equipment is the bottom-up, COVID-19 version of rolling bandages or knitting socks for the troops.
The lockdowns are prompting Americans to relearn skills and revive almost-forgotten habits.
People around the world are working together in unprecedented ways to help their neighbors and produce critical medical supplies.
Politicians aren't the only crafty ones.
From Australia to Massachusetts, illegal gun makers step in to supply what legal markets aren’t allowed to produce.
It's Ravelry, and it's not just a "knitting site."
Sophisticated firearms are becoming ever-easier to illicitly manufacture in basic workshops, says a new report. We'll even show you how to do it!
Commemorating the Whole Earth Catalog 50 years later.
Reloaders and DIY gunmakers alike are motivated by innovation and a willingness to make for themselves what the government doesn't want them to have.
From DIY guns to designer drugs, classic-car parts, and human livers, 3D printing promises a dynamic and uncontrollable world.
I made antibiotic-resistant E. coli in my kitchen, and the world didn't end.
Build a Glock 17 using parts from the internet