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!
The “WaveSynth 2.0” by Leo Peschta is a digital instrument that creates sound through the use of mechanical valves in a water basin and an array of sensors to detect the pattern and movement of the waves. The resulting data is sent to a computer which then synthesizes the data into a sound composition. Nice […]
Rishi Oswal (of in and around San Diego, CA) lives in his car. Now, what separates him from that guy in his van down by the river is this totally incredible custom bed platform he made to go inside his Honda Element. He documented its creation insanely well on his blog, with every little detail […]
This appears to be a video of a homemade airplane made in China by a farmer called the “Shanzhai huaxiangji” via Kottke. It’s hard to tell what’s actually going on, it could be a fake but there are some interesting things about what it’s called — more about the airplane (name) here. “Shanzhai” means homemade […]
The LHC is not only a monumental machine, it might give us clues to how the universe works and what it’s made of… (from the Wikipedia)… The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) that lies under the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC is […]
Kids today… 4,000 miles on a juice carton boat via Gizmodo. His records for mountain climbing may lead some to say that Rhys Jones has his head in the clouds – but inspiration for the 22-year-old’s latest feat came from origami. The adventurer, who is the youngest person to climb the seven highest summits on […]
Although this mod won’t be seen by many people because it’s under the hood of a car, we still applaud this maker who managed to create a giant NES controller that sits on top of his car’s motor. Playing a game with this controller might be difficult if you are driving, although you’ll be the […]
On Johnny Lee’s website, he discusses (and shows video off) his latest computer-human interaction research at Carnegie-Mellon using the Wiimote. In the above video, he gives a presentation on different types of flexible, foldable displays using the motion tracking of the Wiimote and IR LEDs (and projection) to simulate the displays. On his page is […]
