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!
Massive collection of motorcycles Earlier this year (see Part 1), we examined some of the cool, the fascinating, the unusual and the utterly weird designs for motorcycles that have appeared for over the last century or so. Here’s another look the wild and wonderful world of motorcycles.
Here is the latest in our Make: Shorts video series, covering “Maker Pioneers,” inventors, entrepreneurs, makers, who are dreaming up clever solutions to today’s energy and environmental problems. In this episode, we meet Kurt Fleischer. Kurt is a senior research scientist at Pixar, where he worked on building filmmaking software and directly on such films […]
Nice video by young engineer Jeremy Blum at Ignite Ithaca: “Building an Engineer“. [via adafruit]
We’ve posted about Jared Bouck’s algae bioreactors in the past, but he’s redone the project and made improvements. Here he explains his long-term goal for the project: Our goal is to place algae bio reactors in many homes in a neighborhood, to both raise awareness of the potential of algae and start a harvesting and […]
I merged my MIDI-playing code with my scooter-driving code and put them both on the new, rad-hardened 3ph v3.1 controller. [Thx, ChArLeS]
Mathematicians often make theorems and proofs with just a pencil and paper (and some logical thinking). Another mathy thing that anyone can make with pencil and paper is a doodle. Vi Hart shows how in a series of high-speed videos on her website. Want more? Try this one: What mathy doodles can you make? More: […]
Xiaoji Chen and Ari Kardasis came up with an idea to tile the scrap material from a laser cutter, using an algorithm to piece them together. Fascinating! There is a great deal of waste in fabrication shops. According to our observation, 1/2 – 2/3 of the material surface area is left out in most CNC […]
