Here is a bouncy structure made of dowels and rubber bands in which no sticks directly touch each other. The compression members are not connected, yet the entire structure supports compression, which is an unusual property often called “tensegrity.”
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Architect Akio Hizune recently published these variations on an earlier work imagining a “six dimensional monument” based on Penrose tilings.
Continue ReadingA group from the Technical University of Denmark cobbled together a portable EEG using an Emotiv EPOC neuroheadset, a wireless dongle, and a Nokia N900 smartphone. Using custom software, the unit will render a real-time OpenGL representation of live data from the headset.
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This week’s article is a request, well – it’s more like an open letter for astrophysicist, science communicator and Director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson to consider speaking at Maker Faire New York (or just being our special guest) Sept. 17 & 18 – New York Hall of Science.
Continue ReadingThe sun takes about 27 days to rotate once, so it was a challenge to guess what type of solar activity was happening until it was basically too late. The new STEREO satellite can now help us predict and view what’s going on around the sun all at once… Launched in October 2006, STEREO traces […]
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