MAKE it at Home: Table-Top Biosphere

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• Producer's Notes - MAKE it at Home: Table-Top Biosphere

  Do you have your a "Tabletop Shrimp Support Module" or TSSM? You don't? Well Senior Radio Editor Andrea Kissack and TV Segment Producer Chris Bauer met up with our colleagues at MAKE Magazine to get one going. Read more on the QUEST Community Science Blog.

• Do-it-Yourself Science: The Maker Faire

  It's been called "Burning Man for science geeks." The annual Maker Faire attracts thousands of amateur inventors and scientists, displaying their home-made prototypes and gadget hacks. In a world where the technological race is speeding up, the Maker movement has revealed that the do-it-yourself culture is in no danger of dying out.

• MAKE it at Home: Table-Top Linear Accelerator

  QUEST teams up with Make Magazine to construct the latest must have, do-it-yourself device hacks and science projects. This week well show you how to make a tabletop linear accelerator that demonstrates the finer points of kinetic energy by shooting a steel ball.

Additional Links

• MAKE Magazine

  MAKE brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. This is a magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.

• Make a Tabletop Biosphere - Make: Video Podcast

  Watch the video, download the pdf and create a closed system to live on your windowsill! If you have an aquarium, you probably have all the chemicals you need for this. If you have to buy new chemicals, you'll have enough for hundreds of biospheres!

• Bottleworld.net

  Bottleworld.net is a scratchpad for thinking by Martin John Brown of Portland, Oregon, USA. Guest authors like Jess Dolan chime in too. The central topic is environmentalism — which might nicely be described as "a concern for one's surroundings." FYI - Martin John Brown created the original recipe for the Table-top biosphere we used in our story. Kudos Martin!