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!
The We Make Health Festย is this Saturday 8/16 from 10am – 4pm! If you are in the Ann Arbor, MI area, stop by the University of Michigan Palmer Commons and check it out. Presenters from the community, University of Michigan and the University of Michigan Health system will be on hand to demonstrate and show […]
This true facsimile of a prehistoric whale is a treasure from the past in two places at once.
A team of Russian physicists want to revisit Tesla’s greatest unrealized plan, update it with modern technology, and try to make his theoretical world-wide wireless power transmission system a reality.
Friend of MAKE Niklas Royย builtย and installed inย the Tschumi Pavilion in Groningen, The Netherlands this beautiful sponge ball apparatus to bring the joys of tangible particle acceleration to the people. ย I love him for it. What was the inspiration? In his words: As Iโm a fan of science and physics in particular, I find it […]
In case you missed it, here are some of our favorite moments from Maker Faire Bay Area depicted in the greatest of internet forms: the GIF.
I built a spaceship for my four-year-old’s room. It has a control panel full of interesting displays and whiz-bang space sounds. A joystick controls lights and sounds for the engine and thrusters. The payload bay has a motorized hatch and and contains a robot arm for deploying payloads like toy satellites. Headsets provide an audio link between the spacecraft and the Mission Control desk in the other son’s room.
The co-founder of Fab Lab DC wore her final project, a programmable, origami-inspired bracelet that sparkles at intervals to remind the wearer to do something, such as get up and move, take a break, exercise, or re-focus.
