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!
If true, this could prove incredibly awesome – Researchers from Japanรขโฌโขs ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a personรขโฌโขs mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make […]
Windell has created a new free snowflake drawing program. He writes: A new application to draw your own snowflakes and save them in PDF format. Clean, cross-platform, open-source, and able to generate closed-polygon vector shape output. Oh yeah. …while there are some nice snowflake program out there, we didn’t actually come across any that were […]
This worm farm is a wonderful reuse of an old bathtub. I especially like how the drain was plumbed for serving up that rich, fertilizing “worm tea”. My wife and I did some worm composting a few years ago in a much less attractive plastic bin. Next time we’ll build a stylish, bathtub-based worm mansion. […]
Via Mother Earth News, here are plans for 6 different toys for tots (32 months and less) along with developmental reasons for them. Some are incredibly simple, like this ‘tracking toy:’ All include explanations linking your creation to the baby’s development. For the toy above: 1 1/2 to 3 months The first three month’s of […]
Model Boat Mayhem is a great resource for model boat builders. The site has a bunch of good info, pictures, advice and more. There is an active forum for builders with loads of tips and help. People on the forum are helpful and civil from what I can see. Here are some other boat building […]
It’s that time of year again so why not start it off with a guide to the greenest gadgets this holiday season! MAKE intern Peter Horvath and Jill Fehrenbacher of Inhabitat.com and Greenergadgets put together an amazing list! Wind Up Phone Charger Should you need to charge your mobile phone turn this vigorously for a […]
รฏยฟยผThis gel-remote control which was redesigned by Panasonic as something that is “waiting to be touched” actually seems a bit more freaky than functional. Constructed from a soft, flesh-like gel, the remote appears to be cold when turned off. When on, a soft light glows from its middle and the device begins to mimic the […]
