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!
Ferroucious writes – In this instructable I’ll give you a simple way to collect Hydrogen gas and if you want also, to collect Oxygen. Depending on the voltage and current that you use for the project this could be hazardous. I used a 14.4 volt power drill battery pack for the process but don’t recommend […]
Hydrocarbons are a subject for many spectacular experiments in the amateur’s chemical laboratory, Popular Science 1937 – Link.
Core77 has a bit about the open source car has been making the rounds on the web over the last week, c,mm,n showed off the world’s first open-source car, at the Amsterdam car show AutoRAI. Apparantly the schematics and drawings are available online, but I couldn’t find them (post in the comments if you do…) […]
Check it out, this project uses an old Intel digital microscope! The topic of the project works between interactiondesign and the biology. It concerns the communication between animal and the machine. The animal represents the user of a system and has the possibility to intervene. The User of the System are the so-called „Daphnien”. These […]
Some fun experiments to extend your knowledge with your home laboratory, from Popular Science 1933 – Simple Experiments and Home-made Apparatus Extend Your Knowledge and Speed the Work You Can Accomplish in Your Own Laboratory It is surprising what the amateur chemist can do with a fifteen-cent bottle of ordinary household ammonia. Being a mixture […]
Andy shows you how to make a ake a beer tin barometer – …There are simpler designs for barometers (though not much simpler it must be said). But this I think is effective, although quite vulnerable to temperature fluctuations, but if you keep it indoors it should be okay. Atmospheric pressure exerts a force on […]
Artist Luca Pancrazzi covered a Maserati Quattroporte with 1,763 lbs. of shattered glass. It looks like something Superman’s rich uncle would drive around… Luca Pancrazzi. 1:1 | Exhibitions | Events | Visitorline – [via] Link & more.
