Science

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!

“Luke” arm

“Luke” arm

Here’s an incredible video from IEEE Spectrum on the new robotic arm Dean Kamen’s DEKKA group is working on, it’s inspired by robotic arm in Star Wars that Luke Skywalker had – Link. Related: Dean Kamen’s “Luke Arm” prosthesis readies for clinical trials – Link. From the pages of MAKE: Dean Kamen: The Dean of […]

Chocolate-powered truck

Chocolate-powered truck

Does Willy Wonka know about this? From Boing Boing: Sounds like an awesome band name, but chocolate biodiesel is in fact what one vehicle ran on, in a 4-week trek from the UK to Timbuktu. A group known as BioTruck modded a 1989 Ford Iveco Cargo to run entirely by biodiesel made from chocolate — […]

DIY Photo Snoot

DIY Photo Snoot

From the MAKE Flickr pool: Member Chris Metcalf constructed this flash snoot from corrugated cardboard and gaffer tape. Although it may sound like the name of a Dr. Suess character, a snoot is a sort of choke used in photography to limit the spread of light from a flash. Snoot’s can create an eerie vignetting […]