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!
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.
BoosterVision is selling a 1-watt transmitter/receiver and CCD camera system for high-power rocketry. Not bad for $280. An included 12db Radome RX antenna increases range up to 15,000 feet. One Watt Hi-Power Transmitter / Hi-Gain Antenna System – [via] Link Related: Model, sport rocketry reference source – Link Estes educator – Free resources for model […]
As the name implies, Engineering TV is a series of webisodic programs dedicated to various technologies, techniques, and research efforts of interest to electronics, robotics and design engineers, or amateurs interested in these subjects. Engineering TV – [via] Link
This was one of the other winners of the Instructables/TreeHugger/PopSci Go Green! Contest. It’s a fairly easy to build tank-top sink that uses the inflow tank water as a (cold water) hand washing sink. Hack a Toilet for free water – Link Related: Go Green! contest winners – Link
This is an awesome drill powered kid’s bike! Thanks John! Link.
iwilltry writes – The purpose of this experiment is to determine your vehicle’s drag coefficient Cd and coefficient of rolling resistance Crr. This is done by measuring your vehicle’s speed as a function of time while coasting in neutral. Why would you want to know Cd and Crr for your vehilce? Well, suppose you’re interested […]
