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!
MotorcycleMoto magazine has a great article on The Uno – a one wheeled-looking motorcycle. Thanks Daniel! The 2008 National Motorcycle Show in Toronto has always been heavily influenced by the American V-twin crowd and highlights some of the area’s top custom builders who have on display a fine array of one-off custom machines. This year’s […]
Doug’s research and development delves deep into the design of stirling engines running off of solar energy. The above video shows his engine model 3d purring along right nicely – I’m in the process of performance testing the engine to see how closely its power output agree with my simulation. There are many sinks for […]
Interesting piece on AfriGadget about mobile phone hacking in rural Africa: One of the more interesting innovations is the development of a dual SIM card hack so that users can access multiple carriers. This product has two SIM card slots in a single phone – primarily to support price sensitive/prudent consumers who wish to optimise […]
Wow, lots of Maker-type events going on in the NY tri-state metro area, Marco writes in… Miwa Koizumi and Marco Scoffier have been invited by Socrates Sculpture Park to help organize a day of making kites from scratch using recycled shopping bags. We would love to get a lot of makers out to riff on […]
The FLARE system is a modular dynamic display for building facades that acts like a “living skin” to allow the building to “communicate” with its environment. The surface, controlled by a computer, consists of a series of tiltable metal flakes and controllable pneumatic cylinders that act as pixels based on their tilt in relation to […]
These floating globes called “Bubble Bobbles” have an embedded tri-color LED that changes its color based on the tilt of the globe. Meant to be placed in a lake or a pool, every passing gust of wind or disturbance in the water causing a resulting color change. Bubble Bobble, [via]
These students came up with a great solution for expanding their wireless network. Apparently there wasn’t any power source available for the network repeater, so they build a wind turbine. These should be on every rooftop, in every city. Dan built the charging circuit himself. Essentially the windmill recharges two 12V batteries and the circuit […]
