Do-It-Yourself

In this video Ted from the HipMonster's team shows our workshop and describes how we train our robots. We have ...

This video is the first time we were able to record two of our robots talking autonomously. While we were ...

Originally, we set up this site to focus on woodcrafting and painting but as our interests grew, we have increasingly ...

For our upcoming Maker Faire presentation we wanted to make robotics more approachable. One barrier to robotics is, by its ...

For the upcoming Maker Faire the Hip Monster's sisters team wanted a challenge. Something that required precision and also aligned ...

Number One looks very simple, it's just a burnt out hair drier with wheels. As out first design we opted ...

The HipMonster's sister team decided to push our robotics to the next level. They were dissatisfied with remote controlled robots ...

When designing Robot Freedom, our educational presentation on robotics, the HipMonsters  team wanted to make robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) ...

This post is an old one we forgot to publish a while back. Currently, Number Three is controlled by a ...

One thing we have always been jealous of is tails. Cats and dogs flaunt them as they strut around waving ...

As presents for our teachers last year, we decided to make a series of wooden seals. We chose cats because ...

Our pony carving was inspired by Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony. We love Pinkie Pie's bright outlook and humor! ...

This is an introduction to one of our favorite making materials, Foam-Mo. Foam-Mo is really great for making models of ...

What do you do if you break a pot? This fun DIY moss terrarium will teach you a great way ...

jfheTo support the San Francisco Zoo, the HipMonsters' sisters team, and a neighborhood friend decided to sell jewelry to raise ...

After finishing Number three, we wanted to make smaller and lighter walking robots. Leveraging what we had learned from building ...

Inspired by the character Professor Sprout (from Harry Potter) and this wonderful article, we set out to make our mandrake ...

Since we discovered how to make Number Five move, we decided to upgrade Number Three. We tried to preserve as ...

The Summer 2023 release of the Color Splash Collection is in! Made from wood and painted in acrylic paint, each ...

Inspired by Harry Potter, the HipMonsters team made our own Hand of Glory out of Foam-Mo. The Hand of Glory ...

This is our wooden deer sculpture, made as a Christmas present. We only used wood from our yard to make ...

Inspired by the Boston Dynamics robot videos, steampunk art, and Girl Genius, the HipMonster team set out to make their ...

After building a number of dovetail puzzle boxes the HipMonsters sister team set out to make their own unique design ...

We wanted to give people a scare on Halloween and was inspired by a visit to Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum so ...

We decided to make a special present for our teachers at school. One of the teachers really loved alligators, so ...

With all the potion-making we have been doing recently, we found that we needed a place to put our potion ...

We saw the need for a new robot for halloween, so we made one. This is our steampunk squirrel powered ...

This project is about how to build a ladder bookcase. This bookcase has less room because its sides slope in ...

The Hip Monster's sister team has created a DIY pump drill.  Pump drills are ancient tools used by many cultures ...

Getting started Need to track the moon phases for that perfect time to cast a spell? Worried about when you ...

When the sisters team discovered Transformer comics (Go WindBlade!) they wanted a whole city of Transformers to play with. While ...

When we go hiking, we sometimes pick up some good pieces of wood to make into staffs or other creations ...

Every wand we craft has unique mythos and a special spell. This wand is called the Crimson Lava. Mythos The ...