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!
If you ask me, crafters are great at recycling, from using the last scrap of fabric to giving a found object new life. Take a look at some of our favrorite up-crafted posts from this year. Looking forward to seeing what 2011 brings! Check out our Green and Recycle archives for even more posts. Wouldn’t […]
Love the articles in MAKE about cool science projects? Wish there was a mag dedicated to just science, stuff like biology, chemistry, physics, art+design, and math? Well the The Citizen Science Quarterly gang are raising money for their first run of 1000 magazines. Check out their Kickstarter video, you can see founder Jacob Schiach mock […]
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics Back in June, I posted about mathematical objects made on a lathe. Here are two more difficult examples, both by Claude Lethiecq, a wood turner working near Montreal. I have examined these in person and they are truly masterpieces of technique. This first object consists of twelve […]
I’ve been going through our the blog’s “green” archives this weekend for a best-of roundup this week. In case you’re giving any last-minute holiday gifts, check out this post from April showing off plantable gift tags. It’s the gift that keeps on giving!
Our resident space geek, Rachel Hobson, turned us on to this amazing amateur video, posted on the Bad Astronomy blog, of animated photos of Jupiter. In the blog post, Phil Plait writes: That is just about the finest imagery of Jupiter from the ground I have ever seen! Look at the detail: the Great Red […]
Here is our final installment of Maker Pioneers featuring inventors, entrepreneurs, and makers who are dreaming up clever solutions to today’s energy and environmental problems. In this video, we meet Kurt Fleischer. Kurt is a senior research scientist at Pixar, where he worked on building filmmaking software and directly on such films as Cars and […]
The lovely ladies from The Way We See The World are trying to get a new product off the ground: Jelloware: What is Jelloware? Jelloware are biodegradable, edible (and vegan!) cups that are flavored to compliment the drink inside. You can eat your cup as you sip your drink, and any leftover remnants can be […]
