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!
Photo from Paul and Sabrinas EV Stuff Nikki likes this open source Electric Vehicle controller project. With an EV, your primary components are the motor, batteries, charger and the controller. If people can develop a design that will allow a more inexpensive and high quality motor controller, they can move the technology in a good […]
Here is a nice round-up of some simple sneaky inks. The old favorites like lemon juice and vinegar are there, but also some more sophisticated systems using stuff like cerium oxalate and iodine fuming. From the pages of MAKE: Mike Golembewksi shows us how to make an invisible inkjet printer in MAKE 16 – Spy […]
Not sure how well it works, but from the pictures on Inhabitat, it does appear to at least… float. It’s made from eight plastic water jugs. Wanes attached to the rear spokes provide power. The DIY Floating Water Bike
RocketJohn rigged up his motorcycle and iPhone together to keep his phone charging while being able to listen to music (with a Bluetooth headset, I’m guessing), via @joepemberton.
They’ve really been on a roll over at the Inhabitat blog lately. I’ve been admiring a lovely garden shed made out of recycled fencing that they recently featured, and now my new favorite post is about these ingenious (and cost effective) coffin shelves, dubbed Shelves for Life. Apparently they wrote about these shelves a few […]
Nice retread of the familiar oil-drum-chair concept, which manages to actually connect the form of the drum and the function of the chair in a rational way. There are four rubber feet–two in front and two in back–and the arc between them can be adjusted to set how far the seat rocks, presumably all the […]
Photograph by Sally Myers Like many people of his generation, Baron Margo was dazzled by the futuristic concept cars Detroit trotted out year after year. And, like many people, he was disappointed that those streamlined vehicles remained unobtainable concepts to the average motorist. But unlike many people, Margo did something about it. He, as he […]
