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!
Ron writes – “This is a my street-legal jet car on full afterburner. The car has two engines: the production gasoline engine in the front driving the front wheels and the jet engine in the back. The idea is that you drive around legally on the gasoline engine and when you want to have some […]
Awesome, we posted up an old photo from 1895 of a “Railway velocipede” and of course, turns out, there are makers out there building and using these. Here are a few that were sent in. Railbike along the scenic Willamette River between Lake Oswego and Portland – Link. Krazmo writes – “This guy has well […]
Matt writes – “I have loved mechanical things since I was a kid. Engines in particular have always intrigued me. All my life I’ve pored over books, studying cutaway diagrams, hungry to understand how things worked. These pages are an attempt to share that magic.” Thanks Tim! – Link. Here’s how the animations were made […]
From Engineering News of February, 1895 “The wheels have rubber bands 3 ins. wide and 3-16 in. thick on the tread, which make the machine run easily without jar, and also without noise, so that the rider can catch the sound of approaching trains.” – [via] Link. I really want to build one of these […]
Jacob has the same Intel Play cheap-o microscope I use (here) his photo blog takes a look at objects at the 3 different magnifications, like this old tie… Sample: An ugly orangey-brown tie. Source: Goodwill, where ties go to die. Man. This tie is even ugly up close. More here – Link. Use a Mac […]
Five 60-foot dish antennas at Stanford, known as the Bracewell Observatory, are about to be demolished by the school. Bob Lash organized the Friends of the Bracewell Observatory Association to help rescue the dishes and he’s done all that he can do to persuade Stanford to stop the demolition. Yet it could happen any day, […]
Emeka from the Timbuktu Chronicles writes – “In the tradition of the developing worlds version of Make, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology students and car tinkerers from Suame Magazine and elsewhere have entered a vehicle for the Mini Baja competition.” – Link. Related: Mod Your Rod. James Bond depended on Q to trick […]
