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!
From Tim on Radar – “Paul Boutin describes his hands on attempt at gene engineering with no prior experience: “How hard is it to build your own weapon of mass destruction? We take a crash course in supervirus engineering to find out.” Boutin’s conclusions challenge the conventional wisdom that this kind of thing requires the […]
Pete writes – “Preserving the Knowledge of the Ancients? I’ve found that most of the technical books published before about 1964 never had their copyrights renewed, so now are in the public domain. So I am endeavoring to digitize and post some selected books relating to the “vacuum tube age” of electronics here.” This is […]
Here’s how to build a DIY hoverboard from a leaf blower engine [via] Link.
Volvo has robots that reproduce the same steering/driving movements to better test the towing performance and stability of their cars – robot truck drivers aren’t to far away it seems! [via] Link.
Windows tool to test out your electronics ideas – there are free and more advanced versions ($) – “VirtualBreadboard is an easy to simulation and modeling tool that can be used in place of a real breadboard for quickly performing experiments and testing out electronic and microcontroller powered ’embedded’ applications.” Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Guero Loco writes – “I made this bike for Burning Man 2002 (oceanic theme). It consists of 7 strands of Lytec EL wire. The tentacles are threaded/tied to hardware cloth mesh that I attached inside the frame. The inverter box is located inside the larger box on the rack. The […]
Here’s a huge list of things you can do with liquid nitrogen, including how to make ice cream with it. My other favorites on the list seems like a really messy prank (but MAKE pal Rob seems to have debunked it)- “Freeze a can of shaving cream and then peel the can away from the […]
