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!
Another good item for the ever-growing “How to make a memorable business card” category: Sean writes – I work part time as an organic chemistry tutor. I designed this laser-cut business card to include a drawing template to help my students with one of the most difficult diagrams they must master in o-chem. Both the […]
From Hackaday: Each coil is driven by a dedicated relay, and a PC power supply feeds the system juice, while a programmable logic controller does the work. Since it’s just a matter of triggering the coils in order, the PLC could be easily replaced by a micro controller. Coil Gun version 1 [via]
Planetarium makers do awesome work, even building “home-domes” for exhibition – The Home Planetarium Association welcomes all those who build small planetariums for home, school, museum, or other personal use. A quarterly newsletter is produced; This includes collecting toy planetaria, operating older or small professional units, or just fondly remembering childhood trips to planetariums around […]
Over at the Steampunk Workshop, Meredith Scheff interviews artist Tom Sepe about his mini-bike, converted to run on electricity with a steam boiler to add some cool sound and visual effects. Tom Sepe’s Steampunk Motorbike
Here’s how to make a wind powered generator from an old scanner. Related: Wind Powered Generator – With a motor and some piping, it’s suprisingly easy to build this inexpensive, efficient windmill generator–and enjoy free energy forever, subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition.
The Dutch company S. Lövenstein BV has added that lovely glow-in-the-dark substance to composite flooring, thus creating an embedded emergency lighting solution. Sure, the stuff fades eventually, but takes a lot of complexity out of backup lighting solutions. What applications can you think of? Via Cool Hunting.
Happy St. Patrick’s day! I was looking around for green beer recipes today (it’s 4-5 drops of green food coloring) but also found this “green” approach to brewing beer @ Wired… A time-honored tradition on St. Patrick’s Day is to drink green beer. But Brooklyn Brewery won’t partake in the ritual. Instead, the brew pub […]
