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!
Instructables user LucidMovement built this great lamp out of electro-luminescent wire covered in crystals. So, of course, all of you reading this have thought to yourself at one time or another “I would absolutely love to grow some crystals on el-wire and then encase it in silicone and acrylic.” No? Oh, well maybe it was […]
Make: contributor Stefan Jones reminisces about the iconic 1970 Estes model rocket catalog.
I’m no battery expert, but in tracking science and tech sites this year, there seemed to be more promising developments in the field than in previous years. Let’s hope so. Here are a few of the recent headlines that caught my attention on Science Daily
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this clever idea for recycling dead tires (or storing new ones) from Pittsburgh’s Joe Katrincik. It’s two smaller plywood circles for the base, a larger one for the top, 6 castors, 6 screw eyes / eyebolts, and 3 ratcheting tie-down straps. I bet if one were to counter-bore the top holes, a bit, and used T-nuts instead of hex nuts to secure the top eye bolts, one could avoid having the nuts sticking up above the work surface. If one thought it mattered.
Amy from Mod Podge Rocks! created these cute ornament gift boxes out of a few recycled cake pop boxes from Starbucks. I wouldn’t mind a few treats in one of these, hint, hint…
Dr. John Conway’s cellular automation simulation, the Game of Life has been accentuated with some 8-bit beeps and boops! This project, uploaded by YouTube user golece576, was run on an Altera Cyclone II FPGA. [Via Embedded Ppojects
We covered Flickr user yamamo2’s (and his father’s) first high-performance double pendulum build back in 2009. The first version would swing for about 10 minutes, without added energy, after being started. The latest version swings for fully twice that, as the embedded videoโall twenty-two minutes of itโthoroughly demonstrates. I haven’t seen any info about the design changes required to achieve this level of performance, unfortunately.
