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 TheThompsonFive modded another bicycle (this one was tossed in a river) – it now has an extended fork, small front wheel and above the shoulder handlebars – Link. So, we’ve had a few days of posting workshop and workbench photos, join the MAKE group if you have a modded bicycle […]
Here’s are a couple photo albums of projects from Ryan, a completely custom home-built recumbant tricycle and an aluminum machined DDR dance pad with lexan panels. – Link.
Back in the 30’s makers built scaled down versions of sailing ships and sailed them around – “Amateur boat builders in many parts of the world are going down to the sea in midget ships. They are putting off in men-of-war, square-rigged traders, ocean liners, and superdreadnoughts barely larger than rowboats, yet reproducing in every […]
Land tank, only $20k – “Features: Carries cargo or a crew of up to five internally or on the roof. Piloted from within the armored shell or from an exposed standing position through the hatch. 6hp Tecumseh gasoline engine, top speed 40 mph. Includes head/tail and turn signal lights, trim and underbody lighting. 400 watt […]
Popular Science’s How 2.0 has a round up of Theodore Gray’s articles from the past 3 years, tons and tons of experiments and how-tos – ” Ever yearn to make your own silicon? Preserve a snowflake on a microscope slide? Fuel a rocket ship with sugar? Theodore Gray undertakes these and many more mind-bending projects […]
John Bean writes – “Take a look at two new presentations on our website. The common theme is that there is lot more going on than meets the eye. With the Van de Graaff generator, the expected electronic circuits are all missing and it instead depends on differences between materials . . . along with […]
Here’s a video of pyrolytic graphite levitating (diamagnetic levitation) over 4 12mm neodymium magnets – I have the magnets, just need to find some pyrolytic graphite, anyone know a good source? – [via] Link.
