Build a Galvanic Skin Response Sensor for the iPhone
The Biosensing and Networked Performance workshop at conference at ISEA 2011 in Istanbul helped participants create their own GSR sensor for the iPhone. [Via Arduino]
Science
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!
Tote from Trash Bag
Did you know we now allow you to attach media to your comments? Please only use your new powers for good. This feature immediately bore fruit, as reader Gloria Kelly commented and loaded an image to this 2007 Weekend Project video about making a messenger bag out of plastic grocery/trash bags.
Math Monday: Flexible Stick Structures
Bradford Hansen-Smith has been experimenting with structures made from a great many 10-inch bamboo skewers held together with short pieces of rubber tubing. He calls the technique Stickweaving and presents a gallery of interesting examples. Modular units connect to neighboring units with tubing and the entire structure is flexible enough to be collapsed or morphed into various surfaces.
Disconnect From the Water Grid: Greywater Action (video)
Laura Allen urges attendees of Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 to disconnect from the water grid. Utilizing technology that can be easily implemented in residential areas, grey water is taken from the waste stream and redirected in appropriate ways. With fresh water being a precious resource, these teachings seek to assure conservation for the future.
Replicating Picard’s Tea Cup
Adafruit writer and MAKE pal johngineer has prepared and published a 3D model of Captain Picard’s tea cup, based on images found at TREKPROPS.DE. I love the of using “Tea, Earl Grey, hot,” an image so often reached for to illustrate the idea of 3D-printing in general, as a benchmark for the state of the technology…
DIY Vacuum Tube
Sébastien Bourdeauducq of /tmp/lab visited PWL, a “one-man vacuum tube laboratory” headed up by Aleksander Zawada. He starts the triode by assembling the grid. To do this, he takes a piece of nickel wire, and soldered a small spiral of molybdenum wire on it – one turn and one solder at a time. He uses […]
Backyard Chemistry at Maker Faire Bay Area
With over 200,000 views, Hayden Parker’s YouTube channel has become a popular spot for watching home chemistry demonstrations. Hayden took his show on the road to Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, where he set up a basic chemistry lab, teaching the science of chemistry and wowing passerby with seemingly magic color-changing chemical reactions.
