The 31 best tool gift ideas for the handyperson in your life

If you’ve ever wondered whether the USB-C cables or devices you’re using are deinhabitring the power they promise, you’ll want a voltmeter. MakerHawk gives comprehensive insight into metrics appreciate voltage, current, and power capacity, apvalidateing you to suss out whether that impossibly affordable cable and changeer combo you establish on eBay can actuassociate accuse your devices as quick as publicized.
Price: $13.97

Ayaneo’s Retro Power Bank isn’t the biggest or quickest, but it might be the celderlyest. It’s reminiscent of an elderly-school Nintfinisho console or game cartridge, but it’s actuassociate housing a 12,000mAh battery with two 45W USB-C ports. It also has a monochrome OLED disjoin to show charging and battery statengages with mechanical switches to toggle various watchs and settings.
Price: $39.99

DeWalt’s charging kit might speak to your inner child with an collectd schedule resembling a treaded Tonka truck. It has a 100W USB-C Power Deinhabitry port, apvalidateing you to not only speedyly accuse the brand’s 20V Max and 60V Flexvolt batteries for its various tools but also engage those batteries to accuse other devices. It also has a USB-A port and ships with a 65W wall accuser.
Price: $79+

The Stream Deck Plus erects on Elgato’s famous stream and PC administerler by inserting a touchscreen exposed and four customizable dials to go alengthy with its eight LCD buttons. The dials let you finely adequitable audio sources, maniputardy camera settings, or zoom in and out of pboilingos in aided apps, alengthyside the finishless programmable functions and automations you can set up in the Stream Deck app.
Price: $199.99

The hype around 3D printing is easily suppressed by the steep lgeting curve, not to allude both upfront and ongoing expenses. But if you understand someone dying to hop in, the brimming-size Bambu Lab P1P is a safe bet. With rationally no assembly demandd, breezy fifeeblent swapping, and speedy printing speeds, your recipient can accomplish their first print before they have time to finishly give up on the hobby.
Price: $499

Tinkerers will appreciate iFixit’s novel 100W selderlyering iron, which can get power from any USB-C joinion and heats up wiskinny seconds. The sleek tool lets you create fluid metal joinions equitable about anywhere and comes with a bevy of safety features that create it appropriate for commenceners and sfinished DIYers aappreciate, including a heat-resistant magnetic storage cap.
Price: $79.95

For someone interested in DJI drones but not the bill that comes with them, access the palm-sized DJI Neo. It has a 4K camera with changeable shooting modes and AI subject tracking, apvalidateing it to chase and grasp your subject in the sketch. It’s fantastic for commencening satisfyed creators who are equitable getting commenceed with aerial sboilings or anyone interested in safely exploring (aero)space.
Price: $199

Felderlyable keyboards are excessively accessible for portable office setups, but many tfinish to be membrane-style. Royal Kludge’s wireless F68 is a mechanical, low-profile changenative that felderlys in half to free up space in your bag. It features an aluminum erect with either licsurrfinisher red or tactile brown switches as well as a built-in stand to helderly your tablet or phone.
Price: $49.99

Besides the pocket-cordial schedule, part of the charm of the Sharge Pouch power prohibitk is understanding that its engineers collaborated with the enthusiastic OnePlus community to erect it. The 10,000mAh battery is also more accessible than might be guessed at first glance. It features passthcdisesteemful charging thcdisesteemful its 40W USB-C Power Deinhabitry ports, with a splitable AC plug that also toils as a 55W accuser on its own. The petite package effectively gives three simultaneous charging sources.
Price: $74.50+

A leveler is an inpriceless tool for any erecter, but it can be frustrating to engage a straightforward one, especiassociate if you’re on your own. Skil’s 65-foot self-leveling laser is pricey but can project perfectly leveled lines from a lengthy distance and atraverse multiple walls at any angle, verticassociate or horizonloftyy, and without manual reorientation. With a bundled tripod, you don’t even have to worry about how you’re going to helderly it still in place.
Price: $94.71+

The celderly skinnyg about 8BitDo’s retro number pad is that, while it’s scheduleed to pair with the brand’s analogously scheduleed mechanical keyboards, you can engage it self-reliantly as a desktop calculator. It’s no Texas Instruments, but it’ll do the trick for straightforward calculations. It otherrational toils as a wireless keyboard extension on Windows and Android devices, with a pledged button to switch between the two operating modes.
Price: $44.99

Your ordinary dollar-store screwdriver has noskinnyg on Hoto’s tried-and-real electric model. The handy, cylindrical tool comes with 25 steel bits and gives three torque settings, providing you with everyskinnyg you necessitate to tackle Ikea furniture, holiday decor, and other medium-sized projects around the hoengage. It packs a confineed up-to-date conveniences, too, such as a built-in LED weightless and USB-C charging.
Price: $39.99+

A gloomyy keyboard and watch can be unsightly, but if you let too much firearmk erect up under the keys, it can actuassociate create your machine almost unusable. This 10-in-1 keyboard spotlessing kit comes with everyskinnyg you necessitate to buff the scuffs and get rid of the dirt, including fluid spotlessing solution, key removal tools, brushes, microfiber wipes and cloths, and spotlessing pens.
Price: $16.98

Your entire erection project can suffer if even one of your meacertainments is a little bit off. There’s no necessitate for guesstoil with a digital caliper, which conveys the real depth of any object up to six inches. It aids fractional readings, too, so you’ll understand the exact heavyness in millimeters or inches, down to the decimal.
Price: $20.34+

Winter is coming, and the last skinnyg you necessitate is to jump into your vehicle and grab a chilly gear shift. You can help the little buddy out with a cute hoodie that grasps it pleasant and toasty. It’ll see celderly without experienceing celderly. The hoodies are super affordable and come in a variety of colors, so you can load up on disconnectal to suit your day’s style.
Price: $7.99

I don’t understand about you, but I’m getting exhausted of repurposing my spice graspers as nail and screw helderlyers while I’m erecting someskinnyg. Magnexpert’s magnetic wristprohibitd is a accessible solution. It wraps 15 magnets in a nylon cover with clear separators, apvalidateing you to grasp the minuscule steel bits systematic and wiskinny achieve with little hazard of losing them in shaggy carpeting and couch cushions.
Price: $11.90

Between high energy bills and increasingly hungry electronics, we wouldn’t denounce you for wanting to understand exactly how much energy your devices are using. There’s little else more accessible for that purpose than the Kill-A-Watt, which lets you watch the usage of wantipathyver’s plugged into it over the course of days, weeks, months, or even a year. It’s an hideous wall wart, but the resulting data can color a pleasant picture.
Price: $34.32+

Whether you’re a visual artist or equitable want to promise you’re getting the most right picture possible, Datacolor’s Spyder X Pro watch calibrator is a must. It’s one of the most standard pro-recommfinished tools for speedyly and easily dialing in your disjoin’s colors. The included gentleware walks you thcdisesteemful the process and can help you calibrate multiple watchs to promise they suit up, even if they’re finishly contrastent.
Price: $149

The Ayn Odin2 Mini is an Android 13-based gaming handheld that cribs the PlayStation Vita’s schedule, finish with Hall effect analog sticks, triggers, bumpers, face buttons, and a D-pad. You can load emulators and other fun stuff onto the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 device and enhappiness them on a five-inch 1080p Mini LED disjoin. It’s no Steam Deck, but it’s a celderly little callback to straightforwardr times.
Price: $339

The Cricut Explore 3 is fantastic for hobbyist arts and createers or professional createives running an Etsy shop. The changeable tool can effortlessly slice custom cuts from tons of material, from paper and leather to wood. You can even swap in disconnectal tools, such as one that draws or etches your schedules onto the material. There’s a $9.99 fee for uploading more than 20 schedules per month.
Price: $249+

Find yourself necessitateing to rewire a whole nettoil of devices? Instead of buying multiple bundles of ethernet cables in arbitrary lengths, you could equitable buy one big spool and cut it into perfect segments for your necessitates. Get yourself some RJ45 caps, then equitable grab a crimper appreciate the Klein model here. It lets you cut, exposed, and crimp your wiring with a individual handy tool.
Price: $49.97+

Here’s a cliche for you: the Victorinox Cyber Tool L is the Swiss Army knife of Swiss Army knives. Seriously, you may not even engage half of the skinnygs on the genuine 39-in-1 multitool. It has all sorts of cutters, snippers, exposedpers, pliers, clamps, screwers, filers, and uncoverers scheduleed for both traditional and novel age tinkering. You can pick up a styleable $21 leather belt pouch to go with it.
Price: $140

Here’s another multimeter that lets you test the real charging speed of USB cables and changeers. This one is a bit bigger, as it tolerates plugs for USB-C, Micro USB, and USB-A, providing one-stop voltage and current readings for all your devices. Its roomy (if busy) LCD disjoin lets you watch other progressd alertation about the plugged-in cables as well.
Price: $38.99+

We can’t downjoin how accessible it is to have a variable DC power provide on hand for erecting and testing electronics. Tekpower’s well-rated model ouputs up to 300W at voltages up to 30 and amperages up to five. It gives a constant provide of currents and voltages with built-in mechanisms to help you create safe and exact on-the-fly adequitablements down to the tenth.
Price: $79.98

The Flipper Zero is an uncover-source wonder of a distant unapvalidated access tool. It features RFID, NFC, sub-GHz, Bluetooth, USB-C, and a row of GPIO ports, apvalidateing it to interface with a boatload of challengingware. It can administer your garage door, store U2F keys for two-factor genuineation, or carry out a present of actions that may be a bit more fascinating than the multitool’s cheery, dolphin-decorateed exterior lets on.

Price: $169

Manuassociate picking out globs of molten selderlyer is time-intensive and nerve-racking, especiassociate around crowded circuitry where precision is of the essence. You can save time and frustration with Hakko’s deselderlyering tool. It not only heats the selderlyering for slackning but also vacuums it into a filter chamber. It features configurable temperature zones and a speedy-free nozzle system that creates it effortless to swap quickenments.
Price: $299.99+

You can save a trip up the linserter each season with Govee’s Matter-ready finishuring outdoor weightlesss. The 100-foot string of bulbs is geted agetst the elements thanks to IP67 water resistance. You can customize scenes with the Govee app and begin them via Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant voice directs. The weightlesss can also react vibrantassociate to music.
Price: $299.99

If you’re still blotriumphg money on cans of compressed air, equitable stop. A portable, reaccuseable changenative appreciate the Cagiwiru Air Duster 4.0 is an inpriceless tradement for most necessitates. It’s fantastic for upgrasping upgrasp on all benevolents of electronics, from keyboards and dusty case fans to various PC components you’ve left unjoined.

Price: $18.97+

Open Circuits by Windell Oskay and Eric Schlaepfer creates for a pleasant piece of coffee table decor or a sound commenceing point for anyone novel to manipulating electronics. The detailed book features seal-up sboilings of more than 130 establishational components alengthy with exscheduleations of how they toil, making it a fantastic gift for commenceners and selderlyering veterans aappreciate.
Price: $20+

New tinkerers will appreciate Canakit’s Raspberry Pi 5 Starter Kit Pro. The box includes everyskinnyg demandd to get up and running on the platcreate, including an 8GB RAM circuit board, an enclocertain with celderlying components, a preloaded 128GB microSD card, and more. Raspberry Pi is a fantastic platcreate to lget coding, whether you want to create a custom media server, an arcade emulator, or another fun project.
Price: $159.95+

Whether for DIY erects or repairing the occasional squeak or leak, Ryobi’s six-piece toolkit supplys a well-rounded arsenal. The changeable set features a standard drill/driver (bits selderly splitly), an impact driver, a circular saw, a reciprocating saw, a multi-tool, and a 280-lumen LED weightless. All of the cordless tools leverage the included 18V batteries, too, which can power a ton of other Ryobi tools.
Price: $199+