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!
Have you ever made a robot that didnโt work right, at least at first? In hobby robotics this is no big deal, and it still isnโt the end of the world with industrial robots, but with surgical robotics, being one millimeter off can mean life or death โ or at least complications. Welcome to Carol Reileyโs world.
History is full of quirky tales of scientists who were first in line to try their own experiments. So are comic books, although super villains are more likely than superheroes to be self-experimenters. When the subject of scientific research becomes the researcher herself, thatโs self-experimentation, a gray area in academic science that continues to find strong interest among amateurs.
Junk artist extraordinaire Jud Turner is an old favorite here at MAKE. He’s just moved into a bigger studio and completed his largest piece, ever—a life-size Columbian Mammoth skeleton made from “95% recycled materilas, mostly old farm equipment and agricultural tools.” He’s also posted some cool work-in-progress shots here. [Thanks, Jud!]
This longboard features a tablet computer, Kinect, and 800-watt electric motor, and reaches a max speed of 32 MPH. Chaotic Moon Labs’ “Board of Awesomeness” is intended as a technology teaser to show how perceptive computing can turn around the way we look at user experiences. The project utilizes a Microsoft Kinect device, Samsung Windows […]
What would a tree sound like if a cross section of it were played like an LP? Bartholomäus Traubeck attempts to find out.
Craft Leftovers’ Kristin Roach will soon be seen on bookshelves with her new book, Mend it Better, a guide to giving clothes and other accessories a second chance. From seam fixes to making brand-new hemlines, this book will teach any mending beginner the basics. As someone who tried to hem her own dress while wearing […]
Those of you, um, enthusiastic enough to remember Star Trek IV may recall the scene embedded here. If not, let me set up the clip: The crew of the Enterprise has gone into the past to retrieve some whales, OK? And take them “back to the future,” to coin a phrase. But Scotty has a […]
