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!
Here’s a vintage bicycle headlight that has been given a touch of current LED technology… How to and more @ howtofixbikes – Link. Let there be (bike) light: Make a LED Bike light system – Link. HOW TO – Make the ultimate 18v Bike Light! – Link. Tape case bike light – Link. HOW TO […]
This homebuilt 1984 Trans Am Knight Rider K.I.T.T car took over 4 years and $40k to make.. and now it’s on eBay… “…features a 2tv dash with real working digital gauges with dual 4” lcd screens….. gullwing steering wheel, upper console, lower console, pod unit …all complete with buttons and displays as they were in […]
Robert McCall’s online gallery of a future space travel, from 1960’s… Pictured here – “(48″ x 32″, oil on board, 1967; collection of National Air and Space Museum). A space plane launches from a half-completed space station, in McCall’s classic poster art for the 1968 MGM film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The image is not […]
I really like Pop Sci’s podcast series, the latest is an interview with the maker of an awesome homemade Zamboni, Jonathan Coulton writes – “Inventor Damian Renzello has been making portable skating rinks and related accessories for years, so it’s not surprising that it’s come to this: a homemade super zamboni that blows snow, shaves […]
This is pretty neat, you look up an element and see where it is mentioned in past comic books… “Welcome to the Periodic Table of ComicBooks. Click on an element to see a list of comic book pages involvingthat element. Click on a thumbnail on the list to see a full comic bookpage. For technical […]
Terrie writes – “The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is having a Citizen Science Toolkit Conference in June 2007. They’re bringing people from different citizen science projects together to develop a framework for developing, implementing, and evaluating citizen science programs. Citizen scientists augment the work of credentialed scientists by gathering data and contributing to research efforts. […]
Ever wonder what’s in fix-a-flat? The February 2007 issue of wired tells you! “Amorphous polyolefin – In the can, this shapeless mass of polymeric olefins (low-density plastics like poly-propylene and poly-ethylene) remains dissolved in the heavy aromatic naphtha. But once Fix-a-Flat is sprayed into the tire, the plastics coat the inner surface and plug the […]
