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Welcome to the Make: Science Room

Greetings citizen scientists, budding biohackers, and backyard explorers! We think you'll find the Make: Science Room a fun and useful resource. We hope you'll use it as your DIY science classroom, virtual laboratory, and a place to share your projects, hacks, and laboratory tips with other amateur scientists. Your Make: Science Room host is Robert Bruce Thompson, author of Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture. (Make: Books, 2008) and Illustrated Guide to Forensics Investigations: Uncover Evidence in Your Home, Lab, or Basement (not yet published). We'll be drawing material from these titles first, but will soon branch out into biology, astrononmy, Earth sciences, and other disciplines. We'll be adding lots of material on a regular basis, so check back often. For more info on the site, see Introducing the Make: Science Room.

What's New

• Maintaining a Laboratory Notebook
• Laboratory 6.5: Individualize Human Hair Specimens
• Laboratory 6.4: Study the Morphology of Animal Hair
• Laboratory 21.16: Video - Making Your Own Chemicals (Crystal Iodine)
• Laboratory 12.4: Determine the Effect of a Catalyst on Reaction Rate

General Articles

• Introducing the Make: Science Room
• Setting Up a Home Science Laboratory Part I - Choosing a Location
• Setting Up a Home Science Laboratory Part II - Gearing Up
• Setting Up a Home Science Laboratory Part III - Chemicals on the Cheap
• Maintaining a Laboratory Notebook

Chemistry Lab Session Articles

• Laboratory 6.0: Separating Mixtures - Introduction
• Laboratory 6.1: Differential Solubility: Separate Sand and Sucrose
• Laboratory 6.2: Distillation: Purify Ethanol
• Laboratory 6.3: Recrystallization: Purify Copper Sulfate
• Laboratory 6.4: Solvent Extraction
• Laboratory 11.0: Acid-Base Chemistry - Introduction
• Laboratory 11.1: Determine the Effect of Concentration on pH
• Laboratory 11.2: Determine the pH of Aqueous Salt Solutions
• Laboratory 11.3: Observe the Characteristics of a Buffer Solution
• Laboratory 11.4: Standardize a Hydrochloric Acid Solution by Titration
• Laboratory 18.0: Colloids and Suspensions - Introduction
• Laboratory 18.1: Observe Some Properties of Colloids and Suspensions
• Laboratory 18.2: Produce Firefighting Foam
• Laboratory 18.3: Prepare a Gelled Sol
• Laboratory 19.0: Qualitative Analysis - Introduction
• Laboratory 19.8: Analysis of Paint Samples for Lead
• Laboratory 12.0: Chemical Kinetics - Introduction
• Laboratory 12.1: Determine the Effect of Temperature on Reaction Rate
• Laboratory 12.2: Determine the Effect of Surface Area on Reaction Rate
• Laboratory 12.3: Determine the Effect of Concentration on Reaction Rate
• Laboratory 12.4: Determine the Effect of a Catalyst on Reaction Rate
• Laboratory 21.16: Video - Making Your Own Chemicals (Crystal Iodine)
 

Forensics Lab Session Articles

• Laboratory 5.0: Soil Analysis - Introduction
• Laboratory 5.1: Gather and Prepare Soil Samples
• Laboratory 5.2: Examine the Physical Characteristics of Soil
• Laboratory 5.3: Examine the Chemical Characteristics of Soil
• Laboratory 5.4: Examine the Spectroscopic Characteristics of Soil
• Laboratory 5.5: Examine the Microscopic Characteristics of Soil
• Forensics Laboratory 8.0: Revealing Latent Fingerprints - Introduction
• Forensics Laboratory 8.1: Dusting and Lifting Latent Fingerprints
• Forensics Laboratory 8.2: Revealing Latent Fingerprints Using Iodine Fuming
• Forensics Laboratory 8.3: Revealing Latent Fingerprints Using Ninhydrin
• Forensics Laboratory 8.4: Revealing Latent Fingerprints Using Silver Nitrate
• Forensics Laboratory 8.5: Revealing Latent Fingerprints Using Super Glue Fuming
• Forensics Laboratory 8.6: Revealing Latent Fingerprints Using Gentian Violet
• Forensics Laboratory 8.7: Revealing Latent Fingerprints on Cartridge Cases
• Laboratory 6.0: Hair and Fiber Analysis - Introduction
• Laboratory 6.1: Collect Hair Specimens
• Laboratory 6.2: Study the Morphology of Human Scalp Hair
• Laboratory 6.3: Make Scale Casts of Hair Specimens
• Laboratory 6.4: Study the Morphology of Animal Hair
• Laboratory 6.5: Individualize Human Hair Specimens

Tools, Books, Gear, Kits

• Choosing a Microscope

 

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