Backyard Rocketeer
Airship writes – “PopSci has a front-page article about a Mexican grandfather who built his own Rocket Pack.” Link and video.
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!
Learn about physics from Walter Lewin (videos) – more links
Jake writes – “Thanks for the link to the MIT physics lectures. The unfortunate part is that they only let you stream the videos, unless you go through and edit each link with an MIT server instead of an Akamai server. This gets tiring after 100 files or so, so after I altered every single […]
HOW TO – Dual voltage regulated power supply for CD-ROM in a truck
Talking Electronics writes – “A friend of mine who runs an electronic shop wants to install an old cd-rom to be used as a stand alone cd-player in his truck. His problem was to find a suitable power supply for this purpose. A cd-rom uses 2 power supplies, 5 Volts which is used in its […]
Engine repair and rebuilding
Drew writes – “Like many people, I learned about the four stroke internal combustion engine in junior high school science class, but one look under a car’s hood makes it obvious that the pedagogical diagrams of a single cylinder left out a lot of the details. Unwilling to disassemble the motor of my daily driver, […]
DIY garage for car repairs
Fix your own car for $7.25 / half hour – “O’garage – in Roubaix, France, near the Belgian border – is a DIY garage for car repairs. Gearheads pay by the hour or half hour to use the facility’s fully loaded space and professional-grade equipment, including car lifts. O’garage offers instructional guides, clinics and classes […]
House trucks
Roger Beck’s Some Turtles Have Nice Shells is a guide to the global subculture of house trucking, including a brief instruction manual for building your own whimsical mobile home on top of an old truck or bus chassis – [via] Link.
Houses woven out of trees
MIT architect Mitchell Joachim has proposed a living house, based on an ancient gardening method known as pleaching, which involves weaving together tree branches to form living archways, lattices, or screens – [via] Link.
