DIY science is the perfect way to use your creative skills and learn something new. With the right supplies, some determination, and a curious mind, you can create amazing experiments that open up a whole world of possibilities. At home-made laboratories or tech workshops, makers from all backgrounds can explore new ideas by finding ways to study their environment in novel ways – allowing them to make breathtaking discoveries!
In honor of The Fourth of July, here’s John A. Conkling, adjunct professor and fireworks expert to show us the chemistry behind fireworks. Watch this video and learn the science so that you can impress all your friends and family tonight with your incredible knowledge.
A MAKE reader named James wrote to us with a physics question. It’s in reference to the video above: First of all, I wanted to say that you guys have the BEST vids on youTube! I have started to read quite a bit about frequencies and I want to do this experiment. If you watch […]
Steve Hoefer created a fun video that shows you how to make match rockets.
Learn how to make a torus model and then how to create a 7-color Ungar-Leech map on it.
Four times a year, when our planet is in the appropriate alignment with the sun, the shadow this sundial casts onto the ground spells out either “solstice” or “equinoxe.”
In case you haven’t heard the name before, Spoonflower is a print-on-demand custom fabric service that can indelibly print your images on a roll of fabric up to 58″ wide. Andrew@CRAFT just spotted this promotional project from their guest author, Emma Jeffrey, showing off one of the many cool possibilities this service opens up: pillows, cushions, or other upholstery with customized satellite imagery of your location.
Cultural anthropologist Eben Kirksey brings citizen science to Brooklyn, using an Arduino and the history of two frogs to educate the public.
