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!
Here’s a nice way to annoy your neighbors while exercising around your local hood. The “Soul Cycle Chopper” is the ultimate party bike and best of all, it comes with instructions. How to build the “Soul Cycle Chopper” – Link, [via]
Helena sent in The Container project @ UC Santa Barbara, the before and after pictures are impressive! – Engaging affordability and sustainability as themes for this inaugural competition, participants are asked to use two 20-foot shipping containers as the raw material to create attractive, functional and eco-friendly designs as possible solutions to the affordable housing […]
Philip Ross’ art crosses the boundaries of technology and biology.
Check out this electric bug conversation with a 70 mile range! Thanks Andrew! – Link.
What if the 1950s had just kept on going?
Here’s how to host a snail race in your home, complete with printable racing tags to affix to the snails – Link. If that’s not your thing, you can also freeze a snail…Life and death at low temperatures, in MAKE 07 (Backyard Biology) we show how to freeze and revive a garden snail – here’s […]
Crazed “Tesla turbine” maker MrfixItRich is at it again. Just in time for Thanksgiving dinner, he demos his water-powered Tesla turbine salad spinner. SinkScience 04 – Tesla CD Turbine-Powered Salad Spinner – Link Related: Tesla turbine from a CD disc pack – Link
