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!
My fiance is a biology geek, so I wanted to incorporate science into her engagement ring. I worked with the jeweler to make a ring that includes a DNA double helix and a waveform of a recorded message cast on the inside of the band. It took six different models and 3D prints to get everything nailed down, but it was worth it.
Amateur scientists are shaking up mainstream science.
Three recent Lego project books show readers how to make cool models–but they’re beautiful books just to look at!
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.
Leif Ristroph and Stephen Childress from New York University have just released work with a new robotic ornithopter with a biomechanical design based not on traditional insects or birds, but rather on the aquatic jellyfish.
“This video of the sun based on data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, shows the wide range of wavelengths — invisible to the naked eye — that the telescope can view.”
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.
