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!
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 […]
The green keeps on coming today – this San Francisco disposal company has its own sculpture park featuring work constructed from their main area of business – The Sculpture Garden at SF Recycling & Disposal is — as far as we know — the only art park located at a garbage company. The garden is […]
Decor 8 links to this tutorial by Sweet Jessie showing how to make a fabric-covered corkboard in an embroidery hoop. What a great place to pin up your crafty inspirations!
