Collaborate Disseminate
With all the recent attention on Mars and the search for evidence of ancient life there, it’s easy to forget that not only has the Red Planet been under the …read more Continue reading An Earth-Bound Homage to a Martian Biochemistry Experiment
We don’t get enough electrochemistry hacks on these pages, so here’s [Markus Bindhammer] of YouTube/Marb’s lab fame to give us a fix with their hand-built general-purpose electrochemistry device. The basic …read more Continue reading Building A Multi-Purpose Electrochemistry Device
Following in the tracks of unconventional science projects, [The Thought Emporium] seeks to answer the question of whether you can use a potato as a photograph recording medium. This is …read more Continue reading Using a Potato as Photographic Recording Surface
While some byproducts recall an idyllic piece of Americana, others remind us that the past is not always so bright and cheerful. Trinitite, created unintentionally during the development of the …read more Continue reading Boss Byproducts: the Terrible Beauty of Trinitite
We love it when we find someone on the Internet who has the exact same problem we do and then solves it. [Hyperspace Pirate] starts a recent video by saying, …read more Continue reading Machining Copper from Algaecide
A team at MIT led by [Professor Douglas Hart] has discovered a new, potentially revelatory method for the generation of hydrogen. Using seawater, pure aluminum, and components from coffee grounds, …read more Continue reading Hydrogen Generation with Seawater, Aluminum, and… Coffee?
[Breaking Taps] has done some lithography experiments in the past, including some test patterns and a rudimentary camera sensor. But now, it’s time to turn it up a notch with …read more Continue reading Creating 1 um Features The Hacker Way
The process of creating a diamond naturally takes between 1 and 3.3 billion years. Conversely, a lab-grown diamond can now be created in 150 minutes. But despite being an ethical …read more Continue reading Is It Time for Synthetic Diamonds to Shine?
We’re now somewhere over two decades since the mass adoption of digital photography made chemical film obsolete in a very short time, but the older technology remains in use by …read more Continue reading Colour Film Processing For The 2020s Hacker
We’re so used to seeing a little sachet of desiccant drop out of a package when we open it, that we seldom consider these essential substances. But anyone who spends …read more Continue reading Desiccants, Tested Side By Side