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!
Prestigious general science journal Nature has just published a video segment on MAKE pals GenSpace NYC. GenSpace, an open dues-based DIYbio workspace in downtown Brooklyn, bills itself as “the first-ever community laboratory.” This line from their front page is highly quotable:
Make: Live ep03 video is online! Thanks to our guest Sean Ragan, we enjoyed an evening of science. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download Make: Live episode 03 in its entirety (m4v), or watch clips on YouTube. Also check out the chat room transcript! Sean Ragan – Laser Projection Microscope MAKE contributing writer […]
If you take two empty cans, one closed on the bottom and the other open (i.e. a tube), and turn them upside down, which will be harder to push into a bucket of sand? If, reasoning by analogy to liquids, you (like most people), said the closed one…well, you can sort of guess where this is heading: A closed can is, in fact, easier to push into a bed of sand than an open tube. Given the usual fine print. Adrian Cho explains over at ScienceNOW:
Fast Company featured this cool Treehugger post about a U.S. soldier who occupies his time by making recycled super heroes.
Make: Live airs in just a few minutes! Don’t miss our science fair projects episode with guest Sean Ragan, contributing MAKE writer and blog MVP. He’ll be showing us his laser projection microscope project. We’ll also be trying out an awesome flammable chemistry demonstration from the Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments. Make: Live 03 […]
Gorgeously geeky and detailed how-to on homodyne measurement of the Earth’s rotation using an old turntable (remember those?) and a PS Move motion sensor: In this project we follow in the footsteps of Léon Foucault who in 1851 produced the first convincing experimental evidence of Earth’s diurnal rotation, thus confirming a crucial element of the […]
Make: Live airs tonight! Don’t miss Sean Ragan’s laser projection microscope aka microbial science theater. We’ll also be using a 9V battery to isolate two flammable gasses- FWOOM! Make: Live 03 – Science Fair Projects Wednesday February 23rd, 9pm ET/6pm PT Watch at makezine.com/live or on UStream We’re giving away a USB microscope from Digi-Key […]
