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!
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 “ice†as the cold solution turns from a liquid into a solid in a matter of seconds. This process is exothermic and the resulting “ice†is warm to the […]
The “Walking House” is a modular dwelling system that can move itself around through a motorized system of feet. The moving structure gathers electricity from its surroundings through onboard solar cells and wind turbines. Water for the house comes through collecting rain, and is heated through the solar power system. Read more about this interesting […]
A CD – cereal box spectrometer… Jerry writes – A simple spectrometer can be built from a CD and a box. Cut a slit on one side of the box. Place the CD on the other side with about 60 degree angle. Look down into the openning on the box. The slit should not be […]
Art forms in nature, all 400 pages on Flickr and as a PDF via Beyond the Beyond… EricGjerde writes – Kunst-Formen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), by Ernst Haeckel, 1898. This is a wonderful book, in the public domain, which features all sorts of illustrations of the natural world. If you’re doing some research […]
Check out this cool DIY project that requires your kid to help out on. Okay not requires but does look like it makes a cool family project. It’s called the 6 minute DIY superhero cape.
