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!
One of our readers sent in this interesting project. The Sun Gun is a device that allows you to see the sun without melting your retinas. This looks like a cool project to make for the kids. I wanted a solar scope, safe and portable, for group sun spot viewing. The designs I looked at […]
For this weekend’s Steam Powered: The California Steampunk Convention, the band Abney Park and Airship Ventures have teamed up to offer dirigible rides to conference-goers (for $785 a ticket). Airship Ventures just brought one of their Zeppelin NTs over from Germany and it will be moored at Moffett Field. MAKE contributor Todd Lappin was lucky […]
“Wind Tree” by Elliot Montgomery connects a custom built turbine with a record player so that the blowing wind actually drove the turntable to spin causing the resulting sound to slow down or speed up depending on the available gusts. This project was built during a workshop at Solar One, “a New York-based center devoted […]
Heรฏยฟยผre’s an example of a simple way to make your Arduino greener. This setup is a Solio with an external USB cable connected up to Arduino to power a basic routine on the board. Check out the video of it in action at the link below. SOLAR POWERED ARDUINO USING A SOLIO
Will Allen has won a well-desrved MacArthur “genius grant” for his approach to urban farming (via): The compost as heating system is particularly smart. If you’re in Milwaukee, check out his farm or participate in a worksho. Also, check out the latest issue of Craft to make your own hydroponic garden.
And you thought your gardening conditions were unfriendly? This guy has successfully created raised beds to grow a garden in Iraq. I particularly like the wick design: the buried bottles have parachute cord running to holes poked in the sides. Filled with water, they slowly feed moisture into the soil throughout the day.
Nice home chemistry how-to…. Hot Ice refers to a chemistry demonstration involving a supersaturated solution of Sodium Acetate which, when disturbed, will appear to freeze into รขโฌลiceรขโฌย as the cold solution turns from a liquid into a solid in a matter of seconds. This process is exothermic and the resulting รขโฌลiceรขโฌย is warm to the […]
