Photos by Maya Chavez-Akin.
Making ice cream with cryogens stronger than water ice is a fairly common chemistry demonstration stunt. The ideal way to do it is with liquid nitrogen, which is poured directly into the ice cream mixture, with stirring, and causes it to set up in about 10 minutes. Liquid nitrogen, however, can be rather difficult to get your hands on. Most major cities have a supplier that will sell it to you, but very often they have large minimum orders and/or require that you own an ex...
Have a hankering for some tasty homemade ice cream but don't have the patience? The DIY folks at Make detail how to make serious ice cream in 15 minutes with a little help from our old friend, dry ice.
We've featured a couple of shortcut recipes for making ice cream or sorbet on-the-quick, but most of the time these recipes could benefit from a little more time cooling down. Make's method gets se...
One of the more intriguing exhibits at this year's Maker Faire Bay Area was Ben Krasnow's liquid nitrogen generator rig. Ben built the entire assembly, for under $500, with parts he s...
My Make: Projects - Bottle cutting post has proven to be one of the most popular of the series. So here's a short follow-up revealing a simple trick I discovered for etching designs on glass bottles using the bottle's label as a built-in resist.
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Speaking broadly, non-Newtonian fluids are of two types: Either they get thinner under shear, or they get thicker. Shear-thickening fluids, like the common corn flour-water mixture sometimes called "oobleck," obviously, get thicker when a force is applied. This
I love looking at a well-used workshop, mainly because I don't have one myself. This photo shows the shop of someone's grandpa, packed with over 50 years of projects and history. What does your workshop look like? Upload a shot to the MAKE Flickr pool.
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