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.
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!
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.
Chip Yates: SuperHacks, World Records and Risk
Chip Yates is an extreme electric innovator. He has 18 world records in battery-powered vehicles of his own design. He designed and built the world’s fastest electric airplane as well as the world’s fasted and most powerful electric motorcycle. And he’s presenting today at Maker Faire!
Launching $125,000 into space
With three days still left to go on their crowdfunding campaign, the hackers behind the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project who wanted to recover the ISEE-3 spacecraft and return it operations, have passed their funding goal.
Laminar Water Jets from Copper Pipe, Scotchbrite, and Drinking Straws
Easy DIY design projects beautiful unbroken jet of water up to 15′.
Send Your Project into Space
Space is not just the final frontier. Itโs the citizen-science frontier. And it’s getting easier to participate. Edward Wright, the founder and president of the United States Rocket Academy, and project manager of Citizens in Space, came to MakerCon to announce the new Lynx Cub Payload Carrier, which will enable more citizen scientists to send […]
