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!
MP4 Video | QT Video | HD | Subscribe in iTunes While at Maker Faire in Austin, I met Cristen Andrews of cristencrochet.blogspot.com who crocheted the most lovely backpacks, hats, cozies, bowls and more — all from plastic bags. Here in this video she shows us some of the cool things she makes and how […]
REMINDER: MAKE will have a booth @ the Greener Gadgets conferece – February 1, 2008 New York City. MAKE readers get a 25% discount (use code MAKE25discount) – On February 1st, 2008 in New York City industry leaders, entrepreneurs, journalists, and designers will gather to discuss the business case for the greening of the consumer […]
Jason @ Hackszine is on a nav-system-lockout disabling roll, he writes – After my post last week about disabling the navigation lockout on Lexus and Toyota nav systems, I received a request from an unhappy Ford owner with the same problem. After a bit of searching, I unfortunately wasn’t able to turn up any straightforward […]
Artist Virginia Fleck has an incredible portfolio of work made from plastic bags. Thanks Dan! – Link. Related: Plastic Bag Crafts – Link. Crochet Necklace from Recycled Plastic Bags – Link. Plastic Bag Tiaras – Link. Plastic bag fabric – Link. HOW TO – Welding plastic bags – Link.
Seed magazine has a great article about the future of science… It’s writes – In the early 1920s, Niels Bohr was struggling to reimagine the structure of matter. Previous generations of physicists had thought the inner space of an atom looked like a miniature solar system with the atomic nucleus as the sun and the […]
Our pal, and MAKE contributor, Xeni Jardin posted the following on Boing Boing: Each year, a string of Yuri’s Night World Space Parties around the globe celebrate humankind’s first foray into space. That first human was Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The events are a lot of fun (I hosted one in […]
I’d like a coat made out of this stuff, but that’s just me… In the iconic movie This is Spinal Tap, lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel said of his band’s black album cover, “It’s like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.” He was wrong. A scientist at […]
