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: Online has won an award in Treehugger’s 1st annual Best of Green Awards. We won in the Science and Tech category as Best DIY Tech and Gadget Blog: MAKE is an easy winner for this category. The magazine’s blog is constantly filled with great ideas, hacks, instructionals, and information that keeps gadgeteers and DIYers […]
Instructables user CorbinsTreehouse shows us how to make a unicycle rack for your motorcycle. Quite a niche device, I know, but perhaps it can be easily adapted to hold other one-wheeled devices.
When I was in 10th grade and heading off for a fun time visiting my sister at college, my friend rolled the Dodge Omni 3 1/2 times while driving me to the bus station. My February vacation turned out to be an adventure of a different, more medical sort. That Omni will never get the […]
Vermicomposting: Zero Waste = A Vibrant Garden By Wendy Tremayne Daniel Tainow wishes to reunite fungus, bacteria, and invertebrate communities with the human communities of gardeners, eaters, and wearers of clothing. Tainow is the Compost Project Coordinator of the Queens Botanical Garden located in New York. He envisions a future in which there is no […]
Our pal, and MAKE contributor, RU Sirius, editor of h+ (Humanity Plus) magazine, sent us word of this interview, by mathenaut and sci-fi icon Rudy Rucker, with Stephen Wolfram of Mathematica fame, talking about his upcoming Wolfram Alpha search engine. Here’s the intro to Rudy’s interview: Stephen Wolfram has warped my life three times, and […]
Sean Ragan writes: I’ve recently developed an interest in scientific glassblowing and have been in the process of cobbling together the necessary equipment for about a month now. Besides an oxy-fuel torch, serious glass-blowing requires a torch holder to keep the torch flame stationary relative to the bench while both hands are used to manipulate […]
Limor gives a video overview of her recipe for twittering personal power via the hacker-friendly ASUS WL-520gU wireless router. Cited as reference is MightyOhm’s wifi radio tutorial. Hmmm … anyone for a third antennae? Read more of the project over at Adafruit Industries.
