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!
On today’s episode of Bre Petis’ I Make Things, my pal Nick Farr of HacDC demonstrates the Polyalphabetic Substitution Cypher Slide Rule (PASCSR) he made and uploaded to Thingiverse. Thingiverse launches today, too. It’s a site, created by Bre and Zach Hoeken, where you can share your digital designs/object files with the world. Cool. I […]
We’re really liking Discovery’s new show, Time Warp – it’s the perfect combination of science, woohoo! moments, and how things work. The hosts, Jeff Lieberman and Matt Kearney, both have an infectious sense of curiosity that make the show really fun to watch. Do you know how your dog uses its tongue to drink? In […]
This is a great way to recycle a discarded wooden pallet. I just might grab the next one I find on the street and make a coffee table out of it. This modern, ethnic-looking coffee table, with its ochre stripes that conjures up visions of Marrakech, was made from a wooden pallet discarded in a […]
Watches made from Apollo 11 stuff… via NOTCOT. Forget diamonds – one Swiss watchmaker is betting on watches made from moon dust, parts of the Apollo 11 rocket and bits of spacesuits to capture consumer cash as an economic slow down bites. More than 600 watchmakers have the Swiss brand stamp, so Geneva-based Romain Jerome […]
Clever global warming rug… made by Nanimarquina via BoJ. “Road Kill Carpet” Bunny rug.
Industry gives a laboratory to America’s young scientists… Popular Science 1941. YOUTHFUL, IMAGINATION, an inexhaustible national resource, is being developed along scientific lines by the American Institute of the City of New-York. This organization, chartered in 1828 and devoted throughout its existence to the promulgation of science and the encouragement of American industry, established its […]
Featuring our own Robert Bruce Thompson, author of the Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments (where you can learn how to set up a home chemistry lab and keep your local public officials on their toes): HOBBY CHEMISTS will tell you that home labs have been the source of some of chemistry’s greatest contributions. Charles […]
