Life and Death at Low Temperatures
How to freeze and revive a garden snail.
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!
Proto โ Garage Biotech
For a safer world, Drew Endy wants everyone to engineer life from the ground up.
Strange Love
Or, how they learned to start worrying and love to hate the bomb.
Maker Trips โ Duct Tape and Cyclotrons
Incredible machines at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Car mod identification : Donks, Boxes or Bubbles?
Here’s a photographic guide on identifying the different hi-riser cars out in the wild. I saw a sweet Donk on Valencia (SF) over the weekend, but wasn’t sure what it was called until I saw this… – “Since the creation of the wheel, man has been on a quest to make them bigger and better. […]
Farm dragsters
These farmers aren’t messing around, they are drag racing on completely tricked out tractors – [via] – Link (photo gallery).
Claude Lelouch’s “Rendezvous” : Google Maps + Google Video
One of my favorite “Maker-made” films of all time is Claude Lelouch’s “Rendezvous” – “On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. No […]
