The Home Scientist

This post will describe the electronics I used to drive and control the LEDs for my element display. These were designed by my good fri...

This post will describe the LED lighting scheme I used to illuminate my element display, including where I sourced the LEDs, how they a...

This post will go into detail on how I assembled the individual acrylic shelves for my element display, including where I ordered the p...

This post will go into detail on how I constructed the backboard for my element display, including cutting it into sections to make it tr...

For a very long time I have been interested in the hobby of element collecting. That is, collecting actual samples of elements from the Pe...

Titanium metal from a thermite reaction has been one of my goals for a long time. I needed it for my element collection, and this thermite i...

In doing research for my experiments, I often run across articles in the news about police raiding suspected "home meth labs" or ...