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!
You may think a Marx Generator is a device for spitting out strident communist rhetoric, but it’s actually a type of high-voltage circuit for spitting out HV pulses. This is probably one to put in the “Don’t Try this at Home” or “Touch = Die” file as we are dealing with current here that can […]
MythBuster Adam Savage: 3 ways to fix U.S. science education… Makers post up your suggestions in the comments!
Weird Weird Science posted this extreme zooming video on the structure of steel – quite awesome. They have video for concrete, brass, aluminium and more available as well. – Weird Weird Science on Dailymotion Should you prefer a little more color & motion, check out Trey’s macro video of a plasma ball in action –
Robert writes- This last weekend the whole family flew on Space Adventure’s G-Force One (just featured last night on Mythbusters). Being science nuts, we spent some time thinking up experiments to do in microgravity, and ended up testing the Diet Coke & Mentos reaction. We hacked a camera port and mount into a portable glove […]
“Brainloop” is an interactive platform for performance which uses a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) that allows a performer to operate devices by imagining specific motor commands. The goal is to virtually navigate around Google Earth by using the BCI. Interesting concept, although we wonder if it’s really that much easier than doing it the old […]
Rainwater harvesting’s kind of a no-brainer: when you start looking into it, capturing free water from the sky tends to creep onto your project list. (Image from Austin Water) Here are some Instructables to help you get started on basic systems: Starting with one 55-gallon barrel, and tying in another Getting fancier by going multi-tiered […]
The raft was made of 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cessna fuselage…. Tanned, dirty and hungry, two men who spent three months crossing the Pacific on a raft made of plastic bottles to raise awareness of ocean debris finally stepped onto dry land. The raft was made of 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cessna fuselage. […]
