How-To: 3D Print a Model of your Brain
Take those MRI slices and stack them back together to build your brain.
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!
Can It Be Water-Damaged? NeverWet It!
This product looks really cool! NeverWet is a two-part coating that can be applied to nearly any surface — cloth, electronics, concrete, and so on — and it totally repels liquid. It was developed by Ross Nanotechnology who licensed it to Rust-Oleum, and you can buy it at the Home Depot. [via C-Net]
Farm Drones Take Flight
We all know what drones can do in the hands of the military and law enforcement. For recreational use, they’re fun to fly around with a GoPro strapped to its belly. The commercial use of drones is in its infancy. Congress passed a law last year requiring the FAA to open the skies to wider drone flights by 2015. Once the happens, the FAA estimates that within five years there will be about 7,500 civilian drones in use. According DIY Drones’ Chris Anderson, one of the areas we’re likely see more drones is a place that doesn’t come to mind when we think about aerial robots: farms.
Makers in Space
Planetary Resources is Kickstarting a project to send a satellite into orbit that backers will be able to direct themselves.
Circuit Bending Bacteria with the Fuel Cell Symphony
A look at Gilberto Esparza’s latest project, the Fuel Cell Symphony, which converts water samples and the unique bacterial agents contained therein into audio. Esparza refers to his art-meets-science setup as “DJ Microscope.”
Return of the RoboRoach
We talked about them back in MAKE issue 31, and we also had them on Maker Camp last year as part of our field trip to the NASA Neuroscience Lab, but now they have a Kickstarter project for the first commercially available cyborg.
Building an Instant Giant Tetrahedron
The Math Museum builds an Instant Giant Tetrahedron at a science street fair in Washington Square Park in Manhattan, NY.
