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 reader Travis pointed out this neat technology that is being used to make robots that can climb on almost any surface. Scientists at SRI have been developing robotic climbers that attach to the wall using a technique they call electroadhesion.
Pamphleteer William Cobbett launched the sustainability movement — in 1821.
A new series on the Discovery Channel puts the inventions of perhaps the greatest of all makers to the test.
What Cape Canaveral is to astronauts, the Bonneville Salt Flats are to those who love to drive fast.
Takayuki Ohira creates planetariums for everyone.
Annual growth rings in trees provide valuable information about past precipitation, climate, major volcano eruptions, and forest fires.
So you couldn’t get a visa to Ghana, misplaced your tickets to Accra, didn’t have an up-to-date yellow fever shot or for some other reason couldn’t make it to Maker Faire Africa…Well lose that sad face, the feed is just beginning. It always seems that during amazing events like Maker Faire, the online coverage doesn’t […]
