
Make48
Diving deep into the hands-on brainstorming and prototyping stage with lots of inventing, building, innovating and collaborating.

Diving deep into the hands-on brainstorming and prototyping stage with lots of inventing, building, innovating and collaborating.

The teams go on a one-hour supply run in a hardware store to gather the materials to create their invention mentors from the product industry interface with the teams to share some of the real world challenges and processes in product development.

Meeting the teams and learning their back stories the teams learn the challenge and its rules, and they get started.

Jason builds upper and lower laundry room cabinets with a corner cabinet lazy Susan, crafting the frames from three-quarter-inch plywood and finishing them with custom doors and a seamless face frame.

After 12 years remodeling his 1990s home room by room, Jason finally tackles the laundry room, adding poplar cabinets, a farmhouse sink, and butcher block counters.

Jason makes a concrete coffee table with a fluted base and white oak top, using a silicone mold, glass-fiber mix, and routed oak planks before assembling the finished piece in his living room.

With the exterior of the treeless treehouse complete, Jason builds a playground including a tire swing, a tube slide, and a zip line then, back in the workshop, he fashions walnut chisel handles.

Cris designs an extendable dining room table with maple tabletop panels and builds a workshop storage cabinet for fasteners and bits.

Cris renovates her tiny-apartment kitchen, repurposing much of the original cabinetry since her studio walls are uneven, it takes a lot of measuring and readjusting to keep the design aligned.

Cris designs outdoor folding chairs that can be made with basic tools and makes a leather bag for her drone.

Cris makes a lift-top coffee table and shares the basics of screenprinting for making posters, tote bags, and t-shirts.

Jason builds upper and lower laundry room cabinets with a corner cabinet lazy Susan, crafting the frames from three-quarter-inch plywood and finishing them with custom doors and a seamless face frame.

After 12 years remodeling his 1990s home room by room, Jason finally tackles the laundry room, adding poplar cabinets, a farmhouse sink, and butcher block counters.

April builds a large loft space for storing shipping supplies and takes us on a tour of her CNC wood shed then, she makes composting bays.

Working with his favorite material - pallet wood - Paul carves a wavy vase in keeping with the theme, he builds a set of wavy shelves reminiscent of the sea.

Paul makes a pair of stylish and efficient shoes from wood a unique design evolves into something much bigger.

Laura takes on her fourth camper conversion project, transforming a horse trailer into a tiny camper she installs aluminum siding and upcycled windows from a salvage yard and builds a Dutch door.

It's all about working with steel, as Laura welds a heavy-duty deadbolt from scrap metal then, she cuts and joins an end table, a hexagon lamp, and giant steel letters with lights.

Jamison builds custom recessed window frames using pocket-hole joinery and shares tips for installing window trim, as well as how to avoid common mistakes and hide imperfections.

Jamison builds a new drip-free deck off the second-floor main bedroom of the lake house he builds a plywood nightstand featuring a hidden drawer.