HOW TO – Make a homemade battery using fermented grass
Here’s how to make a homemade battery using fermented grass cut from your lawn, thanks Franco – Link.
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!
HOW TO – Fossilize your hamster
This book looks great, here’s the blurb from Amazon… – How can you measure the speed of light with a bar of chocolate and a microwave oven? To keep a banana from decaying, are you better off rubbing it with lemon juice or refrigerating it? How can you figure out how much your head weighs? […]
Students unveil eco-product prototypes
Neat selection of eco-product prototypes, pictured here, a solar powered bottle sorter – The assignment was wide open: Design something based on the principles of reduce, reuse and recycle, and develop it into a prototype product. The results ranged from simple mechanical devices to complex electronic machines, but all served that central purpose in original […]
HOW TO – Make Recycled Fridge Magnets
Evil Mad Scientist shows you how to turn a whole bunch of empty candy and food containers into playful yet functional fridge magnets. [via] Link.
Recycled Giftwrap Stickers
I love how Jamie from Mary Jane’s Attic has used a circle hole punch and a Xyron sticker machine to craft cool new stickers from her used holiday wrapping paper. If you guys have any other fun ideas on how to recycle giftwrap, please leave a comment! Link.
“Gingerboard” House
My friends Billie and Tootie (who own the green-themed art and design store Reform School here in L.A.) blew my mind today when they gave me a Christmas present wrapped up in the most amazing way–in a handmade house they created from recycled cardboard! I love all the little details, such as the scalloped kraft […]
Solar LED Christmas lights
Wheelgirl writes – It is getting dark at 5:00 pm, and I have a bike shop signs that needs to be lighted at night during the winter holiday shopping season. So I repositioned a solar garden light ($5) in an Altoids box, cut off and took some pieces from some battery-operated IKEA Glansa LED Christmas […]