Favorite life science blogs
MAKE is listed in The Scientist’s list of “favorite life science blogs” – we try and include enough science here for Makers, if you like what we have been cookin’ vote for us! – Link & vote (add a comment with your vote).
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!
Insanely cool, creepy “LittleDog” robot
You probably remember Boston Dynamics’ BigDog, the four-legged robotic packmule, the video of which went viral last year. Here’s the latest BD creation, LittleDog. It’s astonishing, when a robot becomes this adept, ambulatory, how organic it seems, life-like. The robot: it plans. And there’s something uniquely unsettling about that. LittleDog Robot – [via] Link
HOW TO – Transform hand warmers in to liquid ice sculptures
Popular Science shows you how to make cool ice sculptures from the liquid inside hand warmers… – The mechanism behind this is supersaturation. Hot water dissolves much more sodium acetate than does room-temperature water. Keep adding sodium acetate to a pot of nearly boiling water until it stops dissolving, and you’ve saturated the water. Let […]
GreenRbot – lawnmower bot based on a wheelchair
The GreenRbot is a lawnmower build using electric wheel chair parts – Link (French) and translation…
Salt water as fuel?
This is interesting, I wonder how much energy he needs to put in to get a burn, it might not be efficient, but sounds like fun (if it really works. Post your thoughts in the comments!) – For obvious reasons, scientists long have thought that salt water couldn’t be burned. So when an Erie man […]
Motorized trailer pushes bicycle
Popular Science 1937 – Link.
Tank limo
If you need a limo in the UK, book a tank limo (complete with DVD players, booze and a diesel powered crew heater)… Thanks John! Link.