Happy Fourth of July!
From all of us at MAKE: Happy July 4th to all those celebrating American Independence Day. Please sear your dead things or tofu dogs with care and practice your pyrotechnics with all caution. Be safe, have fun.
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Color chemistry crayons
This is understandable, really, because the chemical composition of many crayons, even if you ignore the wax binder and just focus on the coloring, is extraordinarily complicated, containing many different pigments carefully blended to achieve just the right color. Even if the formulations weren’t trade secrets, it’d be doubtful if many of them could be fit on a crayon label in a legible typeface.
Fireworks Cupcakes
There is still time to whip up a batch of deliciousness for the holiday. Especially if you cleverly tweak a cake mix recipe with some sour cream and lemon juice! The trick when decorating these festive Fireworks Cupcakes is to hold back on the frosting to allow the colorful cakes to show. Easy, fun, and […]
Utterly Insane Sledgehammer Fireworks During Carnival
This has to be the craziest DIY town fireworks celebrations ever!
Rocket fuel from aluminum and ice
The key to the process is that the metallic aluminum is present as a nano-scale powder, and its oxidation by water thus occurs over a huge surface area and therefore proceeds very quickly, releasing amazing amounts of energy. The video starts with the acoustic mixing of the nano-aluminum with water to make a gray paste which is frozen, in a mold, to make a tubular rocket motor. It then proceeds through various test-bench firings and culminates (at 4:00) in the launch of an actual rocket using the mixture.
How to Photograph Fireworks
Some tips on taking the best pics of explosions in the sky.
How Fireworks Work
A look inside of the fireworks and how they go about painting the sky with fire, light, and color.
