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!
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 […]
The folks at esprit cabane show readers how to make these wintry stars from the bottoms of plastic water bottles.
“Field of Light” by Bruce Munro (currently installed at the Eden Project in Corwall, UK) consists of 6,000 acrylic stems connected with fiber optic cables ending in a clear glass sphere. The stems themselves hold no power, so there are 11 external projectors that send light to the balls while the entire installation covers an […]
