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!
Here’s a really interesting-looking remake art contest announcement we received, with decent prizes, even. To show how discarded items can be redesigned into works of art as well as functional everyday items. Prizes First Place • $2,000 Cash Award • Future exhibition opportunity in a highly visible San Francisco venue or museum • Featured in […]
Spatula Tzar, who brought us the controversial fly plane, offers a number of other interested projects, including this ball mill (a device used to crush metals and chemicals into a fine powder), made from mainly junk lying around the lab. Ball Mill
This is starting to look like an art project…
Wendy Tremayne has graced the pages of CRAFT magazine since Volume 02 with her column Re: Fitted, exploring a different instance of creative reuse or green art in each installment. In Volume 03, she showed us how to use nature’s bounty to create natural boundaries, like this fence: And in Volume 06, she introduced us […]
Woo! We’re here all day @ Greener Gadgets! Stop by! The first ever Twittering power meter (Tweet-a-Watt) is working and on display too!
Young maker Max Wallack designed this system for using plastic, wire, and packing peanuts to construct a shelter for homeless people and disaster victims, and he won a hefty design prize for it. Keep up the good work, Max! Via Geekologie. Update: Chris Connors covered this event in more detail, and even gave Max a […]
A monstrous testament to resourcefulness and the valor of the human spirit, rendered in the most modest toy, made of plastic bottles, rusty nails, and bits of wire. Both sort of heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time. Taken in the Rift Valley region of Kenya. Toy Tractor from Recycled Plastic
