Step behind the curtain of the world's fastest invention competition join the Make48 leadership team, expert tool techs, and special guests for an exclusive look at how the magic happens.
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With the essentials like her bed and kitchen in place, Laura focuses on storage solutions she makes a mixed material lift-top bench with one end covered in leather and the other in linoleum.
The whole family lends a hand to craft hoverboard carts, build a backyard ice skating rink with underlined colored lights, and an in-ground basketball hoop.
Jamison converts an old chest freezer into a kegerator, a refrigerated beer keg Jamison adds a plywood collar and offers tips for hooking up a CO2 tank the team crafts a bar console table Jamison designs an outdoor hibachi table.
Anne shares fall garden prep tips, including seed collection, propagation, cold frames, and cover crops she explains how to nutrient-rich compost with common "greens" and "browns" for spring use.
It's fall, the perfect time to plant cool-weather crops Anne shares tips on timing, seed storage, her favorite fall crops, and their harvest timelines.
Jason makes a mid-century, round bistro table from white oak with half-lap and domino joints, rounding the top with a circle jig.
Jason makes patio chairs from Sapele wood, a weather-resistant hardwood.
The 48-hour invention competition begins the brainstorming process patent searches.
The products are shown to select buyers at the National Hardware Show in Las Vegas the final prototypes meet the public.
Professional marketing companies help create product videos for the newly redesigned prototypes.
The top three products begin their journey to the marketplace U.S. design firms help redesign the winning products new prototypes are made and tested.
Final pitches begin teams present their products to the judges.
The teams complete their prototypes and start focusing on their pitches teams provide a sneak peek of their product.
Laura challenges herself to build a folding table that is collapsible, stable and also good-looking the result incorporates two of the three Laura builds a table with a dog bed for Smudo.
With a sculpture and design background, Michael Alm founded AlmFab in 2014 by 2017, he had found a passion for video, and today, he's a full-time woodworker and content creator based in Seattle.
For Kelly Shirey of Eden Woodcrafts, what began as a way to cope with the grief of losing her daughter has blossomed into a heartfelt passion for spreading joy through her 3D woodworking creations.
Visual artist and maker Justine Silva explores all mediums, creating immersive spaces. Ashley Pieper of Shallow Creek Woodcraft pursued an online mastery program to learn fine furniture-making.
Master craftsperson Cam Anderson of Blacktail Studio specializes in designing custom furniture woodworker Larry Tkaczyk focuses on intricate projects like Shaker boxes and wooden paddles.
Brad shares his favorite tools under 20 dollars, which cover a wide range of categories he creates a simple system to organize messy drawers for better storage.
Brad builds outdoor chairs for his back deck with cedar boards he experiments with different methods for dismantling glued joints without damaging the wood.
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