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!
This just showed up in our inbox moments ago, and man does it ever look like a fun and creative way to spend a lazy summer afternoon. And it’d make a perfect MAKEcation project! Booooooom, the Vancouver arts community and blog, headed up by Jeff Hamada, hosted this event at Trout Lake in Vancouver last […]
The engineering profession is usually pretty dry, but engineers generally have a great sense of humor.
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics The traditional craft of quilting can be used to make many mathematical forms. While quilters have always used geometry to work out repeating patterns, some modern quilters go further in using mathematical objects as the subjects of their quilts. Here are two impressive examples by Sarah Mylchreest […]
Princeton Architectural Press has done it again, producing a book that is as beautiful and tactile as it is thought-provoking and educational. BEE, by artist and photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher, is basically a photo gallery of scanning electron microscope photographs of bee anatomy. The pictures, ranging in magnification from 10x to 5000x, are stunning, and by […]
From designer Aristide Antonas. More pictures in his Flickr set. [Thanks, Billy Baque!]
RazErBlades: Motor-assisted inline skates controlled by a force-sensing throttle built into a wrist guard. Vehicle: Electric inline skate Drivetrain: 2 wheel direct drive Mechanical: 6061 aluminum skate frame, ABS and various plastics upper Motor: 2 100 watt custom BLDC hub motors Controller: Maxon 380200 DEC 50/5 BLDC control module DIGI XBee 2.4Ghz 802.15.4 radio modules […]
From our friends at UncommonGoods: Do you have what it takes to become the next Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin? Are you sitting on a genius design or invention that is sure to be the next big thing? Then we want to hear from you! In honor of National Inventors’ Month, UncommonGoods is issuing a […]
