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Why not plan to set aside the weekend of 16-19 February 2007 to take part in the ninth annual Great Backyard Bird Count?

Wanderings

How to Build a Cloud Chamber.

A Canteen Cloud Chamber  --- In his January 2001 Amateur Scientist column, Shawn Carlson describes a way to view the path of charged particles.

Use this DIY RS-232 Laser Transceiver to send data over a beam of light.

An audio spectrum analyzer, such as Spectrum Lab can be used as a VLF receiver to record natural radio signals. The Spectrum Lab software is “freeware” that will run on a PC that is equipped with a sound card.

Tony van Roon's electronic project site includes a selection of recipes, just in case you get hungry :-)

Carnegie Mellon University's Autonomous Mars Rover Project.

On his LEO & LEGO site, Leo Dorst shows how he built a working LEGO clock.

LUGNET --- unites LEGO fans worldwide through discussion groups, web pages, and services.

Chromatographic Separation.

The Freedom of Working at Home --- Thoughts of James Lovelock.

Livescience.com --- an online Science magazine.

Jetzilla is an online magazine for amateur DIY jet propulsion.

Pulse-jets.com is an online resource for the DIY jet propulsion experimenter.

The George A. Philbrick Researches Archive might be interesting to some of you “old guys.”

A Tinkertoy computer plays tic-tac-toe!

Matthew Sheil is building a full size 747 Flight Simulator.

The Kids Room

The Science Toys site shows you how to make toys with common household materials that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles.

Pico Technology Ltd. has a selection of Science Experiments for Data Loggers and Oscilloscopes on their web site. While these were written for their products they can be easily be adapted to other instruments.

Reviseguys is working with UNESCO to bring together pupils from different countries, to provide an online environment to chat, blog, post questions and give answers helping to improve understanding of science and chemistry, and to make new friends.

Build a Solar Powered Water Heater.

The Science of Superheroes.

Suppliers

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Apogeerockets looks like a good source of model rocket supplies.

Make your own X-Ray Machine with a tube from United Nuclear.

Kantronics has a telemetry package that can be used to monitor environmental conditions or system and equipment status at remote locations.

From The Far Side

Be the first on your block to have a Tesla Earthquake Machine.

Free Electricity!

MERLib.org --- Modern Energy Research Library