Make It - Research

Great Video About Infrared Light

Wed, 16 May 2007 17:02:26 -0500

Make It has been making Infrared Scopes for some time now. Travis learned a way to make infrared goggles. We were able to find less expensive materials and make tons of one eyed scopes with museum visitors. The scopes we make block out all but the lowest light visible to our eyes.

The other day I found a great video that explains infrared radiation. The goggles and cameras in this video are different because they take radiation lower than our eyes can see and change it into a display that is visible. Check it out.

Cleaing out my inbox

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:20:16 -0600

I've been cleaning out my Inbox of really old emails. I found a couple emails I'd sent myself about science stories.

Combating Harassing Use of Mosquito Noise Device is a funny little story. The younger a person is, the higher the frequency of the sound they can hear. Here's another explanation of the Mosquito Noise Repellent and how it's used against teens. Make It does a couple of projects about hearing, especially Vocal Chord Cups.

Here's one about bacteria-powered motors. Check out the motors Make It makes with visitors.

An article about how our brain understands information from our eyes. Make it does a bunch of projects with sight including Thaumotropes, 3d Pictures, Pinhole cameras, and Zoetropes.

Finally, a little blurb about exotic materials. Make It is working on a couple of projects using dilatants. Right now we're working out how to not make a mess with the materials.

alternate forms of power

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:13:21 -0600

Some of the Make It team members are working on balloon powered cars and rubber band powered cars. Today we watched three videos about alternate forms of energy.

Road trip is a video about the cost of driving.

Ethanol vs. gasoline is a video about the cars that have "flexible fuel engines" or engines that can run on ethanol.

The Wind Power Project is a long video about a wind project in California. We only watched the first segment of this video. We skipped the segments about "The Price of Urban Renewal" and The San Diego Hotel.

For more information on alternative energy, check out these stories on the Science Buzz.

bird flu virus

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:24:34 -0500

info about vaccine found in London, England

I'm interest in this because it's about something that happening around the world. It a major event that is killing a lot of peoplearound the world.

Clocks

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:44:00 -0500

Today was my first day back in two weeks. We read an article about a clock tht is run on a single mercury ion. The most percise clock was one that ran on cesium. The cesium clock would be off by one second for every 70 million years. The new mercury clock would only be off by one second every 700 million years.

Camera attachment to make 3-D anaglyph images

Thu, 04 May 2006 13:08:41 -0500

Here are some instructions from Instructables.com that shows how to make a camera attachment that can take 3-D anaglyph images. It looks pretty cool.

It's a nice complement to the project that Cameron and Alina have been working on.

3-D Anaglyph Images

The Clock of the Long Now

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:17:42 -0500

This is a news story about the "Clock of the Long Now". Check it out.

10,000 Year Clock

research

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:35:12 -0500

Today I read two different stories that me and mike are going to tell with are thaumatropes. One of the articles I read is that there are a lot of students That attend the college YALE and they and a porfessor are reseaching all about the mind and how it work when a person is looking at an illusion.They have found that the mind has difficulty when there is an illusion that is large,but when the image is small the mind tends to over expand the image in the persons mind. This proubly why some optical illusions may hurt or make your eyes hurt because of all the stuff going on in you mind at one time. Other that the recearchers are curently finding more about how the mind works.

Optical Illusions

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:33:01 -0500

Here are two news stories about how the brain understands the information our eyes send.

Reserachers explore the senses

Research challanges concept that motion is all black and white

3D Imaging News

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:19:08 -0500

Researchers are using 3-D imaging to study fish from the inside out. This will help scientists understand what is happening inside fishes bodies.

Click on the stories below to find out more.

3D Virtual Fish Dissection

Project takes fish collection into digital age

Camera Obscura

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:29:24 -0500

Follow this link to find out more about Camera Obscura and how to use it.
What is a camera obscura

This is how to make a camera obscura.

Fossil News

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:45:34 -0500

One of the projects we are working on is to make fossils. Fossils of new animals are discovered all of the time. Here is one of them

New Batteries

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:27:59 -0500

We are looking at how to make motors and found news stories about new sources of power. Researchers have "trained" viruses to make super small batteries that can fit almost anywhere. Here are two different explanations of the new batteries.

Virus Engineering

Living Viruses Create Flexible Battery Film

Stereo Pictures

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:02:57 -0500

Check out this website to see how to make 3-D or stereo pictures:

3-D Photos

Stereo Photographs

sewing machine current science

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:11:51 -0500

Today for i looked for currenct science ideas to go along with the sewing machine project i have been working on. i researched and found alot of good and interesting ideas that had to do with wearable electronics. Like smart shoes that adjust themselves to the comfort of your shoes. And a new finding was a jacket that had speakers in the hood to allow someone to hear the person they are talking to on a phone or connected to an ipod! and many other interesting things i found. Now i just had to find a project to go along with one of this wearable items.