draft project

Hands-On Science

see it work, then build it

Understand how things actually work โ€” engineering and experiment videos watched together, the safe ones recreated at home, and a build log of what we tried, what surprised us, and why.

A copy carries over only the public parts you see here โ€” the owners' private files never leave their own vaults.

๐Ÿšง Draft โ€” not final. This page was auto-generated as day-one scaffolding for the project and still needs a human pass before it reads as finished. The blanks and placeholders below are intentional โ€” someone who runs this project should fill them in and delete this notice.

Build log

Watching is the input; this log is the output. One entry per experiment โ€” and the most important line is what we expected instead, because the gap between prediction and result is where the actual science happens. Kitchen physics before power tools.

House safety rule (written once, followed always)

  • An adult is in the loop for every build.
  • Nothing pressurised, nothing at mains voltage, nothing that makes a gas we can't name.
  • Eye protection when anything could fly, snap, or splash.
  • If a step feels sketchy, we stop and look it up โ€” the experiment waits, the caution doesn't.

Log

Build 001 ยท 2026-07-21 ยท (experiment name, source video in sources/)

  • We predicted: (say it out loud and write it down BEFORE running โ€” this is the whole point)
  • What happened: (what we actually observed)
  • The surprise / the why: (where reality and prediction parted, and the explanation)
  • Do differently next time: _____

Ideas queue (safe & cheap, picked from sources/)

  • (the weekend's pick โ€” kitchen-scale first)