Taking a Pounding: How Woodpeckers Avoid Concussions
Woodpecker adaptations can inspire designs that prevent impact and vibration damage.
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!
Makers Launch to Space in Global Balloon Challenge
To date, 52 teams from 17 countries have successfully launched their balloons to the edge of space.
Making the “Luke” Bionic Arm
The “luke” arm has finally been approved for sale to the public.
Let Your E Go Free: Day Against DRM
Imagine if you bought a book, read and loved it, and wanted to share it — but couldn’t. Imagine that the publisher was somehow able to prevent you from physically handing that book to someone else. Perhaps they padlocked it in your bookcase; perhaps they weighted it with some gravitational magic; perhaps there are thugs […]
Clothespin Pocket Pistol
Launch matches and toothpicks with this simple hack.
Making the Energy Garden
An 18-month experiment in self-sufficiency.
Walking Again in a Personalized Exoskeletal Robot
Talk about a step into the future… Exoskeletal robots, once the domain of science fiction, are now helping people in need rise from their wheelchairs. One day in the not-so-distant future, they may replace wheelchairs all together. Imagine being able to stand tall and walk again after months or years in a chair. It must […]
