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!
I love this idea: If you have a broken fountain and you can’t afford to fix it — or don’t want to — plant a succulent garden! Above photo, of a Balboa Island succulent fountain, found on Rock Rose. More: Molded Concrete Planters Succulent Pallet Table Hanging Succulent Terrariums
Guilherme Pena Costa created a lighting system for a standard childs’ swing that uses the motion of the swinger to power strips of LEDs.
Seth Horowitz is a neuroscientist and assistant research professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University as well as a maker and a 3D printing enthusiast. He shares this report on some ways that he has been using his 3D printer, including a new research method. Three years ago I had […]
We had a great time in April, with concrete month! Now it’s time for “reclaimed materials.” If you’ve got resources, requests, or recommendations, please click through and leave ’em in the comments. Cheers!
By the Museum of Mathematics If you’ve never made a set of the Platonic solids from paper, perhaps it’s time to try it. These shapes are the foundation for many aspects of three-dimensional design. Here is a set made with open faces, but the openings are strictly optional. You can just cut out regular polygons […]
For me, Concrete Month has been about discovering all kinds of amazing uses for a material that, before, had seemed pretty mundane. But among engineers, that sentiment—that concrete can do so much more than we normally ask of it—is not new. Case in point: the concrete canoe phenomenon.
A group Case Western Reserve University undergraduates have created a waterproof Kevlar-reinforced pouch filled with shear-thickening fluid that can be simply dropped into a pothole to effect a quick fix. Under its own weight, the goo flows to take the shape of the pothole. But when a car drives over, it thickens in response to the applied force and supports the weights.
