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 really intuitive parallel parking system designed by 5 seniors at the University of Toledo. “Our project is to build a parallel parking that is to attach a device to the rear underbody of a car. The concept is to first park only the nose of the car into a parking spot, then having […]
Pop Sci’s interactive periodic table showcases 93 element samples from the collection of PopSci contributing editor Theodore Gray, who spent four years assembling and photographing them, wow! – table & info. Related: Periodic table gets a makeover – Link. Periodic Table of keys – Link. Interactive Periodic Table – Link. Periodic Table of the Operators […]
One of my new favorite sites, EnglishRussia, has a couple great “Made on Earth” transports, a DIY train made from a car and the worlds longest bike!- “It’s creator Oleg “Leshij” Rogov was from Tver city, a small town near Moscow city. He was a big biker fan since his childhood. One day he has […]
“Origami boat is a light folding dinghy for sailing fun. Almost three meters long, Origami boat carries one adult and its extreme lightweight structure makes it exciting to sail. Afterwards it folds up into a flat pack to the same size as a windsurf board…” It’s pretty short on details, but the imagination is tall. […]
This site has a ton of photos from the 1890s and 1930s: farm machinery, country crafts, steam engines, historical planes and some really interesting alternative transportation… – [via] – Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member citifiedplainsman writes – “My father and his two brothers traded a .22 cal pistol for a Ford Model T and commenced to modify it into a prairie “dune buggy”. It originally had an old baler motor and two transmissions. It was a lot of fun when I was growing up. […]
Ok, we might need to do this for the next Maker Faire… Alesis69 writes – “They filled a pool with a mix of cornstarch and water with a concrete mixer truck. It becomes a “non-newtonian fluid“. When stress is applied to the liquid it exhibits properties of a solid. Recorded at Barcelona, Spain…” [via] – […]
