How-To: Solar food dehydrator
Check out this solar food deydrator made from reclaimed materials, and get started on your dried fruit recipes!
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!
3 win Nobel in physics for digital devices – fiber optics and digital imaging
Digital devices this year, interesting… Charles K. Kao, a British and U.S. citizen, won for “groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication.” Willard S. Boyle, a Canadian and U.S. citizen, and George E. Smith, a U.S. citizen, “invented the first successful imaging technology using a digital sensor, a CCD (Charge-Coupled […]
In the Maker Shed: Sneaky Green Uses for Everyday Things
Ingenuity has met its match in frequent Make Magazine contributor Cy Tymony. In his book, Sneaky Green Uses for Everyday Things, Cy combines the sneaky fun of his Sneaky Uses series with the growing interest in green living. The result is an easy-to-practice manual for conserving energy.
Knotwork two-liter bottle carrier
More paracord goodness from Stormdrane.
“Fiction science” theory of Superman’s powers
Back in 2005, I wrote a fictional scientific paper (.pdf) postulating that zombiism is in fact caused by a prion, rather than a virus, as is commonly hypothesized. I also wrote a short essay about the idea of “fiction science” at the time. Now Ben Tippet, at the behest of Dinosaur Comics’ Ryan North, has written a similarly fictional scientific paper (.pdf) presenting “A Unified Theory of Superman’s Powers” from a physicist’s perspective. I’d be interested in hearing of other examples of people co-opting the serious literary forms of science for fictional purposes. If you know of one, please drop me a comment. [via Neatorama]
Hand-tied paracord sling
I’m really digging all the manly knot-tying going on over at Stormdrane’s blog.
Hinged square-to-triangle dissection table
Those of you who appreciated my earlier post about Dudeney’s dissection will likely enjoy this table, commissioned by Joop Van Der Vaart from craftsman Jan de Koning, at Professor Greg N. Frederickson’s page at Purdue.