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!
On my radar this week is Marc Newson’s show at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea. Newson approaches design as an experimental exercise in extreme structure and advanced technologies, combined with a highly tactile and exacting exploration of materials, processes, and skills. As an industrial designer, his reach is broad and diverse, from concept jets and cars […]
Like most, I’ve been counting down the days until the Nobel Prizes are handed out – there will be block parties, Facebook fan pages, parades – all celebrating physics, chemistry, physiology / medicine, literature and peace. For weeks the news coverage will just be all Nobel, all the time. Some say we all get too […]
We have surely entered the age of citizen science! Take, for example, my father’s reaction thirty years ago to a family history of colon cancer. He wholly cut out red meat, began taking vitamins, and started exercising daily. Melanie Swan’s reaction to the same issue, thirty years later, goes far beyond such standard health advice. […]
Being at a Maker Faire, you can tell what’s making an impact by what you overhear people excitedly talking about. At World Maker Faire, there was the usual chatter about old favorites like the Life Size Moustrap and Coke Zero and Mentos, and lots of excited chatter over ArcAttack!, the Madagascar Institute’s Chariot Races and […]
James Corbett, from Ningi, Queensland, Australia, started making art from old car parts in 1999 while running an auto-recycling business. I especially like the frog. [Thanks, Alan Dove!]
When I mentioned to Chris Hackett, director of Madagascar Institute, that I’d have a bum knee during World Maker Faire NY, he offered to “get the Rascal Cycle working” for me. He did indeed, and I rode it from my station in the CRAFT booth to my demo performances on the opposite side of the […]
Craig Smith, whose work has appeared in this blog numerous times (see links below) is at it again: My wife went to visit family this weekend. So left by myself, something geek-like is bound to happen. I started cutting and forming plastic sheets, assembling doo-dads and modifying my car. The result is a car where […]
