How to Build a Soapbox Derby Car

Soapbox derbies are a favorite competitive sport among adolescents and teenagers. Many young people spend half of a summer building their own vehicles, and the other half racing the cars along exciting slopes in the neighborhood. If you want to help [...]

How to Build a Catapult

Things You Will Need to Build a Catapult
If you are planning to construct your very own catapult, you initially need the following materials:

3 pieces of sticks or wood approximately 10-12 inches (you can use longer ones if you desire to make a bigger [...]

How to Build a Mouse Trap Car

Introduction
Toy cars can be a lot of fun to build, but most of them involve the use of some hard-to-come-by materials and tools that can be difficult to use. Not so for a mouse trap car though, as you can make one in [...]

How to Build a Pergola

A pergola, now here is an outside structure that will not shield wind, will not keep the rain out and better yet barley keeps the mid-day sun from shinning in. So one would ask why would you would want such a structure. This [...]

How to Build a Wind Turbine

A wind turbine is nothing but a simple turbine set up in open space, which utilizes the mechanical energy of air, or wind and converts it to kinetic energy. Either it can make things work by implementation of the kinetic energy to the [...]

How to Build a Windmill

A Windmill is a rather simple machine powered by wind energy. The windmill uses wind to turn rotating blades. These rotating blades effectively turn wind energy into usable energy such as electricity and, in earlier times, energy to pump water and [...]