Magnetic, 3D Relief Lake Map
Cartographer Caroline Rose cut this map of Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, out of wood and added Chemetal magnetic laminate to make it magnetic.
Science
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!
Tikkun Olam Make-a-thon Helps Those In Need
“Tikkun Olam” is a Hebrew phrase that literally means “Making the world better”. TOM, which stands for “Tikkun Olam Make-a-thon” is a marathon of Making and Hacking dedicated to just that. For 3 days this summer, Makers of all kinds will be gathered in an amazing industrial space in Nazareth, Israel, to develop, design and […]
Four Student-Designed, Nature-Inspired Transportation Solutions
102 university teams from around entered the Biomimicry Student Design Challenge.
Working Hands Project
I gave myself the mandate to “tell stories wherever hands, tools, and materials converge.”
Air Quality Sensors: How Good is Good Enough?
Citizens can help inform science with low-cost sensors and instruments, as long as the quality of the measurements is good enough.
A Hospital Mini Maker Faire
Let’s Make Health! That’s was the banner under which we all flew Wednesday, May 28th, 2014 at the Maimonides Medical Center Mini Maker Faire in Brooklyn. Fifty years ago, in that same hospital, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz used modified electronic metronomes bought in Canal street to prototype the first implantable pacemakers. They hacked AM transistor […]
Hand Grinding a Telescope Mirror
This is how you make a telescope mirror out of a hunk of glass.