5 Things You Didn’t Know About Composting Toilets
Your excrement contains the nutrients to fertilize and grow the food that feeds you. Learn about the science behind this age-old cycle.
Science
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!
Point the Way to the International Space Station with This DIY Orbit Tracker
To keep tabs on the International Space Station’s orbital position, Grady Hillhouse shows how he created a an automated tracker.
Fantastic 3-mile High Rocket Flight Captured with Raspberry Pi Camera
This Portland State Aerospace Society’s (PSAS) L-12 launch in mid-July is beautiful and impressive. PSAS is a student-based open source rocketry group out of Portland State University. They make all of their design files, flight data, documentation, launch procedures, etc. available on GitHub. PSAS has a history of pushing the envelope in amateur rocketry and […]
These Working Papercraft Engines Are Jaw-Droppers
This video of YouTuber Al Zh demonstrating his working six-cylinder engine made of paper is a real WOW. I can only imagine the amount of patience that went into this complicated little build. And how many iterations do you think he had to go through to get to this point? I get paper cuts just […]
500-meter “Sky Ladder” is Pyrotechnic Stairway to Heaven
Colossal reported earlier this week that Chinese artist Cai Guoqiang (who does a lot of pyrotechnic-based art) had finally succeeded in executing his Sky Ladder piece. Readers may remember Guoqiang from his gunpowder art and that time he filled the Guggenheim with suspended LED-exploding cars. Sky Ladder was realized at Huiyu Island Harbour, Quanzhou, Fujian, […]
NASA Releases 3D Printable Files for Pint-Sized Curiosity Mars Rover
Curiosity might just be our favorite Martian robot. This week, NASA has released files to 3D print your very own Curiosity rover.
This New Printer Works in the Lonely Vacuum of Outer Space
An organization called Made In Space has announced that they’ve made a breakthrough in 3D printing within a vacuum.
