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!
I love this. Instructables user wholman has gathered together a bunch of scrap wood from “dumpsters, back alleys, vacant lots, abandoned buildings, recycling yards, and architectural salvage centers” and laminated it together using all-thread. Then he’s very carefully smoothed and polished only one side of the finished block, leaving the underside rough to show off the process. Beautiful.
Interesting article in the Telegraph about “Argleton,” a town that appears in Google maps but does not, apparently, exist in the real world. The best theory I’ve heard is that the town is a “trap” intended to catch those who steal map data. [Thanks, Glen!]
Anybody else might shrug off these ice spikes as a meaningless hiccup in the preparation of a frosty beverage, but not Lenore and Windell at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories! Snowcrystals.com has a fairly detailed explanation of how these things form, and it’s documented elsewhere as well. (Roughly speaking, supercooled water is pushed up through a […]
Flickr member yamamo2 and his dad built this high performance double pendulum (aka chaos machine) and dang – can this thing get down or what? Instant physics party anytime! unless of course you happen to close and catch a stray pendulum to the noggin … physics party foul, indeed :( Related: HOW TO – Build […]
“Oilpunks” and MAKE pals Jon Sarriugarte and Kyrsten Mate have struck (hammer to anvil) again and come up with the Electrobyte, a cross between an extinct marine arthropod and a wheel chair. Flush from the success of their amazing Golden Mean snail car, they decided to do a sort of mini-me companion vehicle. They took […]
OK, my awesome meter has kind of overloaded on this one. Everett Bradford’s “Prometheus Device” is a hand-mounted appliance that shoots, like, real fire. It looks, you know, dangerous, and all, but it’s so cool I don’t really care. And he’s done a great job documenting the build, although obviously no one should attempt this who doesn’t know what they’re doing. Amazing work, Everett. Thanks!
Stunning… Between October 2007 and August 2009, a new digital all-sky mosaic image was assembled from more than 3000 individual CCD frames. Using an SBIG STL-11000 camera, 70 fields (each covering 40° × 27°) were imaged from dark-sky locations in South Africa, Texas and Michigan. In order to increase the dynamic range beyond the 16 […]
