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!
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 […]
The GreenRbot is a lawnmower build using electric wheel chair parts – Link (French) and translation…
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 […]
Popular Science 1937 – Link.
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.
A Double Pendulum, a.k.a. a Chaotic Pendulum, is a simple, jointed pendulum used to study dynamic systems/chaos theory. It’s also just a really cool widget that’s fun to watch. Not to be confused, BTW, with Steve Jackson’s (of Steve Jackson Games fame) Chaos Machine, which is an entirely different mechanical animal. The Chaos Machine (Double […]
Tim writes in – This is an interesting collection of human powered boats I came across today. I couldn’t find it searching the make blog archives, but I may have missed it getting posted already. Hopefully not. Thanks Make! Human Powered Boats – [via] Link.
