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!
Scott Kellogg, author of Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A Do-It-Ourselves Guide, took the time to let me pick his brain. He’s also agreed to check out the comments below himself; if you’re lucky, he might even answer some of your questions there. A sketch of a floating trash island from Scott’s book. 1. What […]
Letsevo has a nice write up on how-to make your own old school style skateboard. The website has a flickr photo set of the build and a PDF template to get you started in the right direction. I just finished out my latest project. A contribution for the DIY (Do it yorself) community. Since I […]
After several rounds of possum-, dog-, and raccoon-related mishaps, we’ve just received our third round of chickens. Here’s my patient partner Amanda May unpacking the chicks and explaining the process: Here’s where we ordered the chickens and information on the assortment. Believe it or not, there are apparently chickens who will lay green and blue […]
Nice collection of graphs, networks and more… via Robot Wisdom.
Official shot of the complex (above). From Shawn’s Flickr set (below). Living roofs with skylights. They are heat sensitive and open automatically when they reach a certain temperature to get a breeze going inside Bloggers and Bay Area journos were invited on a behind-the-scenes, not-quite-ready-for-primetime tour of the updated Steinhart Aquarium and California Academy of […]
Peacay at BibliOdyssey has a roundup of illustrations of early microscopes. “They were incredibly small, nay so small, in my sight, that I judged that even if 100 of these very wee animals lay stretched out one against another, they could not reach to the length of a grain of coarse Sand.” [Antonie van Leeuwenhoek […]
This cardboard addition to a car is one of a series of such mods that attempt to add some sports car detailing and maybe aerodynamic molding to an average car. Just don’t get caught in a rainstorm with these or you might be kind of soggy. Florian Jennett, via Art in the Digital World
