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!
This is great, a tiny grain silo explosion you can make yourself in your home lab, Popular Science 1933 – HARMLESS, miniature explosions make experimenting with combustibles a thrilling, yet safe, amusement for the amateur chemist. With inexpensive homemade apparatus, he can duplicate the explosions in a gasoline motor and amuse his friends by burning […]
From Popular Science 1932 – for when cars basically came in three models… Using the exhaust gas of the automobile to clean the upholstery is the accomplishment of a recently invented device. An aluminum attachment is fastened to the exhaust pipe and the engine is allowed to idle. As the exhaust gas passes through this […]
Kiteman shows you how to make a Leyden Jar -an early form of capacitor from at 35mm film cannister. Be a Scientist: Bottle Electricity – Link.
These little bots make cockroaches believe that they’re one of them, at least that’s what the roaches want us to believe – LEURRE will propose a modeling protocol to be applied to the calculus of emergence in mixed-societies and study its properties. Its goal is similar to research in collective intelligence or self-organization, namely to […]
Crab Fu sent in one of the best steam powered sites yet, he also detailed why – #1 he’s got quite an amazing collection, make sure to look through all of the eye candy on his site, as well as a virtual walk-though display of his collection. The detailed info and history talks about every […]
Mike sent in this awesome Wanky the safety cat project – When I got my first beater car as a proto-hoon of 16, my dad had some excellent advice, straight from the Midwestern heartland where he learned about wrenching: “Son,” he said, squinting at my barely-running Corona, popping the top on his can of Old […]
Papa-G writes – My son found an abandoned wheelchair in the summer and after spending a week having chariot races (i.e. tying ropes to a bike and getting pulled too fast) it ended up in my garage until winter. As you can see from the image, I have no room for anything in the garage, […]
