The 110208th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 at Location One in SoHo. The meeting is free and open to the public. Please bring snacks to share. We’re always looking for (and playing) more dorkbot theme songs! Bring or email one and we’ll play it at the meeting. +++++++ […]
Robert Bruce Thompson (author of Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments) and Barbara Fritchman Thompson (co-author with Bob on Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders) are hard at work on a new book that is going to bring DIY CSI to your home or basement lab: Illustrated Guide to Forensics Investigations (coming from MAKE in 2009). […]
Mochimochi is clearly on a mission to cute-ify the entire world. Her newest offering is this knitted elf pattern showing you how to make a TINY ELF HANGING OUT WITH OTHER, TINIER ELVES. Does it get any better?! The pattern can be snapped up for $5 at the Mochimochiland shop. If you can’t get enough […]
Here is where I would attempt to summarize the meaning behind Bram Knaapen’s “Technology Context Communicator”. It’s a fairly complex subject matter, so I think I will let him do it for me: The non face-to-face communication of social and emotional experiences between people usually happens through phone or other media like e-mail, IM (instant […]
This is a plotter-type printer that is powered by a LEGO NXT. The website has a bunch of pictures and some videos. There are even screen shots of the code, but that’s about it. I hope there is more information posted soon. A little More about the LEGO powered Bluetooth printer [Let’s Make Robots]
Lately it seems like every kid’s party has a spin art machine. These things can cost over $100 to rent. Crazy! This is a great how-to about making one for almost nothing, and you get to use it whenever you want! More about making a spin art machine
Who said making a Trebuchet has to be an all day project? This version took less than 2 hours to build and the results are great. The tennis ball flew 30′, which is fairly impressive. You should be able to get even better results some slight modifications. The purpose of this project was to design […]
