Human powered hovercraft
Steam Boat Willy has an amazingly detailed account of the technical details on this human powered hovercraft. Via MITers
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!
Re-Construct DVD: Eco-Friendly Crafts Made Easy
Garth Johnson and Jeanee Ledoux have paired up to bring you an instructional DVD of eco-friendly craft projects called Re-Construct. The DVD format is really fresh, and watching Garth and Jeanee is captivating and quite relaxing at the same time. They are both talented artists whose unique personalities come through, complement one another, and keep things interesting. Their tone and format is so natural and casual it feels like they’re hanging out in your living room teaching you how to make cool green crafts.
Hans Christian Ørsted
Leader of the Danish golden age! Thanks to Google, hundreds of millions of people are today celebrating Hans Christian Ørsted’s birthday without having much of a clue who he is … so who exactly was he? … Probably not even the physics geeks remember much about Hans Christian Ørsted, although Google’s Doodle logo illustrates his […]
Make: Projects – Bottle cutting
There are lots of ways to do this particular trick. You may have seen bottles “cut” using a bucket of ice water, a string soaked in fuel and set alight, a hot narrow gauge resistive wire, or some combination of the above. I’ve tried all of these ways, at one point or another, with varying […]
Periodic table sweater withstands the elements
Rachel over @ CRAFT pointed out this cozy piece of science. Apinnick was knitting a basic sweater for her husband, when they decided to change gears and do something a bit different. Brainstroming commenced – Baruch is a microbiologist in the pharmaceutical industry. I thought about it and studied his sketches. The angles of the […]
Designs to deal with the rising tides
The terrific blog Inhabitat has an intriguing article about the winning entries in the Rising Tides competition, wherein entrants came up with ways to deal with what could be a 55″ rise in the San Francisco Bay waters in the next century. From Inhabitat’s recap: Another mind-boggling solution to the high-water mark is Folding Water, […]
10 thousand, billion, billion stars
tdarnell writes – I’ve recently discovered an animation that was rendered using the measured redshift of all 10,000 galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image. I’ve written a short script that leads you through a quick history of both deep field images and this video ends with a fly-through of the Ultra Deep Field. […]