Make: Technology on Your TimeMark Frauenfelder1stLabel: Make Community LLCDescription: Why are so many kids (and adults) like you bored by science? Simple: you've had no real contact with it. You might read about incredibly expensive scientific projects but your hands-on experience is probably limited to the same tired experiments - like baking soda and vinegar volcanoes. Not any longer. Make Magazine's Punk Science issue (volume 31) shows you how you can become a real cutting-edge amateur scientist. Find out how high school and college students can get an introduction to modern biology research through affordable biotech labs provided by Otyp a small Michigan-based biotechnology company. And learn how a cooperative network of schools and research groups called PEER enables students to learn science by working on real projects with people in the field - including the DECA (Distributed Electronic Cosmic-Ray) Observatory that uses Android phones to generate a real-time cosmic-ray flux map of a large area. This issue also shows you how to create these fascinating projects on your own: RoboRoach - Surgically modify a cockroach with a wireless electronic circuit so that you can control it to turn left or right by micro-stimulating its antenna nerves.Lord Kelvin's Thunderstorm - a little-known classic science experiment that generates high-voltage lightning sparks by dripping water through metal rings. An automatic Ball/Toy Launcher for Dogs that will keep your pet entertained and exercised while you're away. A True Mirror which shows what you look like to other people. Pick up a copy of Make today and get involved with real science.
