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 neat energy project: In this instructable, we describe how to build a photo-bioreactor that uses algae to convert carbon dioxide and sunlight into energy. The energy that is produced is in the form of algae biomass. The photo-bioreactor is built from plastic recycled water bottles. By using algae as a biofuel, we […]
This Instructable has a bunch of ideas for reusing plastic (PET) bottles. Some of them are obvious (a grain scoop and a parts bins), some are more novel (a mosquito trap and a plant coldframe). Above are biscuit/cookie cutter, a butter churn, an LED light bulb, and an electric fence insulator. Quick and easy homestead […]
The “Tweet-a-Watt, A twittering power meter” project that Limor Fried and I designed was selected as a “top 50” design for Greener Gadgets – if you like this project please vote for us. Last week we released the how-to, schematics and source – and have live charts! The response to this year’s Greener Gadgets Design […]
In the next week or so I am going to start building the Newton’s Reflecting Telescope Kit from the Maker Shed. It’s a fun little kit that would be great for anyone interested in astronomy. I though I would post some pictures of the kit, and maybe get some suggestions from our readers before I […]
Sarah Palermo of the Keene Sentinal has a great piece that affirms the Maker’s Bill of Rights: WINCHESTER — William L. Morse remembers a young woman who came to his auto repair shop a few months ago with a $3,000 repair bill hanging over her head. He examined the car, which had been diagnosed by […]
Anna at forty-two roads shares a tutorial for transforming a man’s button-down shirt into a cute art smock for a child. A perfect recycling project to keep your kiddo clean!
Eric Gradman has created this awesome interactive fluid dynamics program called Besmoke. It is iPhone accelerometer aware and responds to sound input. It is based on Navier-Stokes fluid simulations. Besmoke – Interactive Fluid Dynamics with iPhone and Sound Reactivity
