Homemade medium format camera
Peter Johansson is building a medium-format film camera. Like, from scratch. He’s about 80% done and has done a wonderful job documenting the build. [Thanks, Billy!]
Science
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!
Mark Frauenfelder on NPR’s Science Friday
Mark, MAKE’s Editor-in-Chief, was on NPR’s Science Friday yesterday, talking about how to “Geek Your Halloween.” You can hear the broadcast here. Photo and pumpkin carving by Patrick Murray.
Pumpkin abuse in the name of science
Over at the Periodic Table of Videos, their chemists put pumpkins through the ringer to demonstrate properties of various chemicals, states, and processes. Nice to see Halloween getting the whole “Peeps in the microwave” treatment. [Thanks, Shawn!] Periodic Table of Videos More: See our own growing collection of chemistry experiments in the Make: Science Room
The long zoom of cells
Still trying to get a grip on the relative size of say, an X chromosome and a ribosome? Then you might want to check out Cell Size and Scale, a neat visualizer of the scale of things from a coffee bean to a carbon atom made by the University of Utah.
Periodic taxi
Follow up – Bruce sent this in “Periodic taxi”!
Periodic table
A maker sent this in, nice table!
Bacterial typography
Dutch designer Jelte Van Abbema recently won the €10,000 Rado Prize for promising young designers.
