Learn Laboratory Safety with the Safety Song!
Wondering what all that strange stuff is in your DIY chemistry lab? Well, then you should definitely watch this lab safety video by the The Sounds of Science!
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!
Man builds machine to treat his own leukemia
Jim Stogdill sent this to the O’Reilly Radar mailing list: I caught this on 60 Minutes the other night and it struck me as the ultimate MAKE challenge. Guy designs his own RF therapy and machine to try to battle his leukemia. He didn’t win, but looks like the tech holds real promise and is […]
BREAKING NEWS: Stephen Hawking’s successor named
BREAKING NEWS: Stephen Hawking’s successor named. We had a contest to guess who it would be, no one got it, some great guesses though! Cambridge University has named the man who will succeed Professor Stephen Hawking in one of the world’s most prestigious academic positions. The celebrated physicist, who has motor neurone disease, completed his […]
Bubble fogger with black light bubble liquid
More awesomeness from Terra of Halloween Forum. The UV-reactive bubble juice is from Tekno Bubbles.
Train an army of children to recycle bottles for you
There’s an odd synchronicity here with last week’s post about the coin-scavenging-crow training machine. This time it’s a hunt-the-wumpus style video game that you play by dropping glass bottles into the slots when they light up.
In a side note, Volkswagen’s “Fun theory award” is now definitely on my radar. Besides this project, their competition to incentivize socially-usefully behaviors by turning them into entertainment also produced the world’s deepest rubbish bin and the public staircase piano keyboard.
Autobots invade Cleveland yard for Halloween
Pretty amazing yard art by YouTuber koUNit1. [via Geekologie] Make: Halloween Contest 2009 Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.
Log radio is better than bad, it’s good
A beautiful wooden radio from designers Solรยจne Le Goff and Christophe Gouache. Solar and/or wind-up powered. [via Dude Craft]
