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!
The Wired How-To Wiki has a piece on Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Your Old Gadgets. So far, it’s mainly about the recycling part, but hey, it’s a wiki, so you can add your own ideas for reusing old gadgets. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Your Old Gadgets
You’ve heard of balloon animals. How about trashbag whales? Spotted on our MAKE Flickr pool. Bertrand, air whale.
Talk about your village ingenuity. (And yes, clearly, it’s only for indoor lighting during the day). Use a 2-Liter Bottle as a 50 Watt Light Bulb lightbulb hack
With spring in full swing and the sun shining longer every day, we’ve got solar on the mind. A great summertime project is a flashback from MAKE Volume 12: the Solar Xylophone! How does it work? A regular xylophone fits inside a solar-powered player box that holds a mallet over each of its 8 chime […]
The always-innovative Diane Gilleland has a great tutorial up on CraftSylish on how to craft with VHS tapes. She makes bookends, loomed flowers, a macrame bracelet, and offers a bunch of other creative ideas. I’ve been wanting to get into using cassette and VHS tape to craft, and this is a great springboard.
Happy Birthday Dr. Bunsen! On this day in 1811 was born a pioneer in chemistry, and a maker of tools! Robert Bunsen was a German chemist; he made many significant discoveries, including the use of iron oxide hydrate as a precipitating agent, still used as the primary antidote for arsenic poisoning. He is probably best […]
One of my favorite projects in the magazine over the past five years was the Tabletop Biosphere in Volume 10, written by Martin John Brown. I think the interns enjoyed building the project as well โ they had to go out and scoop scum out of a pond, plus they got to visit the cute […]
