Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader.

This week we saw everything from a DIY Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) for Viewing Atomic Structures to a modular Nerf Blaster and more.

So lay back, relax and take a load off while reading the top ten stories on SolidSmack this past week.

Oh and uh…don’t forget to shed some much-needed sunlight on your face, too.

The crushing smell of red pepper flakes pushed our heads against the grass and the leaves into the air. When we saw them, we knew they were not ordinary ditch rabbits. No, their goggles, whittled staves and flack jackets told otherwise. They were all too familiar with the red pepper whispers and were able to…