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!
Matt Berg, of BuildAfrica.org, put together a photo montage (PDF) on the increasing use of super-cheap Chinese LED lighting in Mali, in West Africa. The middle picture is of a street-corner cell phone charging station. It costs about .25 to get your phone charged. That last picture is basically of a motorbike filling station (with […]
I love these simple cereal box journals from the long thread. I see all kinds of possibilities for decorating the cover with stamps or fabric, but also love the clean look of the un-altered box lining. We eat loads of cereal in our house, and I love the idea of doing this project with or […]
Adafruit industries took a little field trip recently to W/—— project space in Chinatown, NYC to check out Peter Sand’s robot-tended garden. The giant robot creates a garden, plants seeds, waters them and lovingly tends to it – the operator can control the robotics with a game controller and for the Arduino fans, it has […]
Patti at New World Geek sent us a link to this post showing a clever use of rain gutter as a wall-borne gardening system. The photo was taken by Suzanne Forsling. It’s her gutter gardens, on her house in Juneau, AK. She took the picture for an article she wrote in the Juneau Empire called […]
Longtime recycling maven and CRAFT contributor Tiffany Threadgould is a busy, busy girl these days. Besides running her fabulously clever recycling and reuse company, RePlayGround, she’s working on articles for us here at Craftzine.com, writing a book, and is one of the stars (yes, I said it, she’s a star!) of the new show Garbage […]
Longtime recycling maven and CRAFT contributor Tiffany Threadgould is a busy, busy girl these days. Besides running her really clever recycling and reuse company, RePlayGround, she’s working on articles for Craftzine.com, writing a book, and is one of the stars (yes, I said it, she’s a star!) of the new show Garbage Moguls, in which […]
Aaron built an electromagnetic field detector using an Arduino board, 3.3MΩ resistor, LED, and wire – I was messing around with my Arduino board and figured out how to make a cheap portable electromagnetic field (EMF) detector. It only requires a led, 3,300,000 Ohm resistor, and wire. As I approach an EMF the led gets […]
