Strange Love
Or, how they learned to start worrying and love to hate the bomb.
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!
Maker Trips — 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 […]
Improved solar charged
Here’s an improved Atmel ATtiny13V solar charger, source and schematic included, Dick writes – “Batwatch is a simple monitor for a solar panel battery charger, using an Atmel ATtiny13V. It periodically measures the charge current and battery voltage, and shows them by blinking two LEDs. I built this circuit into the plug of a VW […]
Homebuilt street luge with brakes
Here’s MAKE Flickr photo pool member Xddorox, he made a street legal luge with brakes… the story of how/what/why this came about is a fun read (along with the definition of a bicycle in the Quebec Highway Safety Code)… – Link. Related: Bicycle how-tos, projects, hacks and mods – Link.