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!
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Csc934 posted up some great photos from last month’s Tour de Sol – “Originally concieved as a solar car event, it has morphed into something of an alternative fuel vehicle festival. Electric cars and electric assist bikes were very well represented. There were lots of hybrids and at least one […]
Mypk8 posted up this great modded bicycle – “Created from an old Schwinn tandem – I think it was a Varsity. I cut it up and added a drafting table leg for the down tube. Then filled the holes in with bondo to give it a spine sort of look. I used the triple trees […]
Another homemade pedal powered powered vehicle, this on from MAKE Flickr photo pool member Fritzgutten, a 4 wheel tandem pedal vehicle – Link.
Rob writes “A human-launching slingshot to get a bit more speed on a hill. Wile E. Coyote would be proud. “ – Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Pekar isn’t going to let some tall bike pedal away with the glory, oh no, here’s an old school chopper bike – “My chopper bike. Forks are extended the low tech way, by hammering them on over the existing fork, with some epoxy thrown in for good measure. Another view […]
Rick writes – “Patchwork Central in Evansville, Indiana, runs after-school art programs for inner-city kids. Over the three years that I ran the Bike Club there, the kids (10 years old & up) & I created a number of amazing and unusual custom bikes. Whatever the kids dreamed up, we built… staying within the laws […]
As of right now, MAKE Flickr photo pool member lasertotheface is going to win something nifty from MAKE, he posted up a tall bike. You can handily beat out this tall bike, just post your modded/hacked/interesting bicycle in the MAKE Flickr photo pool – Link. Related: MAKE your way about – Link.
