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!
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 […]
Joseph Karb, a teacher at Springville Middle School, wrote to me about an aquaponics enrichment project he is working on with his students. For the past two months, middle school students have been managing an Aquaponics Fish Farm with over 400 tilapia. Aquaponics is a system where fish and plants work together in a mutually […]
Keith Cowing’s Maker Faire talk made FORA.tv’s Top Ten Video Countdown for 2010. In the talk, Keith discusses Apollo 13 mission hacks, the Skylab rescue (the umbrella used to replace solar insulation and boating tools bought at a local marina) the Syncom rescue (tools made out of plastic and duct tape), Apollo 13 CO2 removal, […]
This impressive demonstration is by researchers at the Flying Machine Arena, part of the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zürich
Alternative transportation tinkerers: the city of Wheeling, Indiana has a call for entries for their Race for the Future competition.
