Three Lego Books to Inspire and Explain
Three recent Lego project books show readers how to make cool models–but they’re beautiful books just to look at!
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!
Send Your Creations to Space with the Global Space Balloon Challenge
Have you ever wished that you could build something and send it to space? The Global Space Balloon Challenge (GSBC) is an event organized to help you do just that: build, launch, and recover your very own HAB.
Flying Robotic Jellyfish Take to the Sky
Leif Ristroph and Stephen Childress from New York University have just releasedย work with a new roboticย ornithopter with a biomechanical design based not on traditional insects or birds, but rather on the aquatic jellyfish.
See the Sun Through Different Wavelengths of Light
“This video of the sun based on data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, shows the wide range of wavelengths โ invisible to the naked eye โ that the telescope can view.”
Cover Your Ears! New Noise Making Products in the Shed
If you’ve done enough making, you’ll know that being a do-it-yourselfer can create quite a ruckus at times, intentional or not! We in the Maker Shed love our group of rowdy new products, which range from melodious to totally discordant.
Supernova Sonification: The Orchestra of Dying Stars
Dr. Alicia Soderberg collaborated with blind astrophysicist Wanda Diaz-Merced to produce audio “autopsies” that translate data collected from dying stars into orchestra-like sound files.
Making a Wave Energy Converter Part 5: Building the Buoy
Once the design for the wave energy converter had been finalized, the team decided to start with building the buoy.
