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!
MAKE pal Jason Sacks will racing in this weekend’s Xtreme Outlaws 250 race in and around Reno, NV (June 17-20). Jason is being sponsored by the fine folks at ShopBot. People who have worked on or presented at Maker Faire probably know Jason. He works as a production manager with the amazing crew that produces […]
Add your image to the last shuttle missions – NASA Face in Space, via BoJ… NASA wants to put a picture of you on one of the two remaining space shuttle missions and launch it into orbit. To launch your face into space and become a part of history, just follow these steps: First…Select the […]
Heron’s Fountain, aka Hero’s Fountain (Wikipedia), is named for Hero of Alexandria, a 1st-century Greek mathematician and physicist who described it in his Pneumatica. It is a kind of hydraulic novelty, in which the action of falling water causes a stream of water to spurt up higher than its source, which is counterintuitive for many. This beautiful example dates from the late 1700s and is described in detail in the online gallery of the Museo Galileo in Florence.
I’m not crazy about the particular models here, but I really like this idea, from user littlerob904 of Aquarium Advice, of using Lego MOCs to decorate your fishtank. I have visions of a detailed layout that covers most or all of the tank bottom featuring an Atlantis or a R’lyeh theme, with fish chosen to match.
Tito Jankowski and Josh Perfetto were at Maker Faire, showing off their prototype for an OpenPCR machine. A wha? PCR stands for Polymerase Chain Reaction. It is a method that can be used for replicating DNA. It can take a small amount of DNA (even a single molecule), and amplify (copy) a specific region exponentially, […]
LOFAR – One of the biggest radio telescopes is now online… and powered by a “Blue Gene” – via sB. LOFAR started as a new and innovative effort to force a breakthrough in sensitivity for astronomical observations at radio-frequencies below 250 MHz. The LOw Frequency ARray is a multi-purpose sensor array. Its main application is […]
Levi Strauss & Co. is running an interesting design contest, called Care to Air. They have new garment labels encouraging people to use cold water in washing their jeans, to line dry them, and to donate them to Goodwill when you’re done wearing them. It’s all better for the environment and you save yourself some […]
