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!
Octopart on “The Secret Life Of Gold”… Harish writes – Gold is an oft coveted material. Countries have been conquered in pursuit of gold, and men have been browbeaten to buy jewelry constructed from it. To the technically minded, however, gold is more than currency, more than a neckalace to show off to your friends. […]
The Aurigid Meteor shower happen 9/1 (today)… around 4am for the folks on the west coast, National Geographic has all the details… A meteor shower on Saturday morning will present a rare greeting from the distant Oort cloud located at the far edges of our solar system. The two-hour Aurigid meteor shower is predicted to […]
Steve Paine, a.k.a. Chippy, is a Brit living in Germany. He’s currently on a bike trip, along the Rhein River, which he’s blogging about using a UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC) and portable solar tech. Those geeks in the house who are as ancient as I am will remember Steve Roberts, the “high-tech nomad,” who took net-connected, […]
The amateur astronomy site Astromart has a short, informative piece on testing and repacking dead power tool NiCd battery packs. These packs are filled with “Sub C” cells. Taking apart a “dead” pack, you can test the individual cells and replace only the bad cells. Rebuilding NiCd Rechargable Battery Packs – Link Related: Cordless drills […]
You may have seen this item on Boing Boing Gadgets, or elsewhere, but if you’re an admirer or practitioner of papercraft, you’ve got to check the link out (as I just did). This Chinese papercrafter created an incredibly detailed, articulated Bumblebee Transformer model using mainly fast-food containers (this badass cardboard dude is basically a bunch […]
A two-part piece on Talk2MyShirt, a wearable electronics blog, shows you how to roll your own solar-powered device-charging bag. Make your own Solar Bag and the sun power will be with you – Link Related: More solar bags… – Link Making messenger bags – The “beta” – Link
David sent around this book Wholly Irresponsible Experiments to our team, I haven’t heard of this book (has anyone else?) – Here’s a review of it by Ian @ the Fortean Times – Science can be looked at in two ways, I suppose: as a selfÂless quest for knowÂledge in the servÂice of human proÂgress; […]
