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!
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics Maybe you’ve always wanted to build your own geodesic dome home, but consider that too large of a project. You can build up your skills on a smaller scale by constructing a chicken coop. Anthony Liekens built this lovely one-meter geodesic dome so his chickens can lay […]
The Pixel Qi screen from the Maker Shed is a revolutionary plug-and-play LCD display technology for your netbook. This one-of-a-kind 10.1-inch display offers two modes, an easy-to-read multimedia color mode, or a crisp low power e-reader mode.
Our pal Jared Bouck, whose light sculpture project appeared in MAKE Volume 24, has just posted a trifecta of simple, low-cost hydroponics tutorials for beginners like me. There’s a general-purpose single-plant bucket drip system with a sight tube, a CFL grow light cluster, and a simple deep-water culture system. [Thanks, Jared!]
The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) won our Green Project Contest at the beginning of 2011, garnering the most votes of all the eco-friendly projects submitted. Marcin Jakubowski founded Open Source Ecology, a network of farmers, engineers, and supporter, whose main project is GVCS, “an open source, low-cost, high performance technological platform that allows for […]
I really like this idea from Sivan Toledo. Although labor-intensive, the price is certainly right and the results are, IMHO, as good-looking as many purchased enclosures and with much more character. The mold is formed from scrap cardboard and covered with the wet paper mixture, and there are lots of finishing options. [via Hack a Day]
Project Space Planes is a publicity stunt, but a fun and interesting one at that. Launch 100 paper planes with a particular brand of memory cards containing messages sent in from people across the Internet on a high altitude weather balloon and see what happens. Well, it’s been a couple of weeks since they launched and results are still streaming in. Currently the list includes a number of unconfirmed reports of planes found in places like Germany, Australia, Russia, India, the Netherlands, California, Canada, and South Africa.
The sun takes about 27 days to rotate once, so it was a challenge to guess what type of solar activity was happening until it was basically too late. The new STEREO satellite can now help us predict and view what’s going on around the sun all at once… Launched in October 2006, STEREO traces […]
