How-To: Grown-Up Hot Chocolate
Spike up a childhood holiday classic with this decadent adult version.
Month: November 2009
Book Review + Giveaway: Balloon Twisting
The Klutz Book of Balloon Twisting by Karen Phillips Klutz.com Ages 8 and up I went through a serious balloon twisting phase as a kid, somewhere between my obsession with the steel drum and sewing purses. My parents got me a book and kit for making all sorts of things from these long, skinny balloons, […]
Holiday Paper Crafts
Lisa at the Red Thread has posted up some links to holiday paper craft tutorials that you can get a head start on now. I am loving her Paper Christmas Wreath and the Holiday Baubles (pictured below) that kids can make. .
BigShot digital camera kit for kids
The BigShot digital camera is a kit designed to teach kids how they work while they assemble and use it. It’s being developed by Shree Nayar and his team at the Computer Vision Lab at Columbia University.
Pumpkin Bread Recipe
Instructables user scoochmaroo shares her best pumpkin bread recipe. And I love her tip about freezing pumpkin bread so you can make a big batch and keep the pumpkin bread love going.
SPARK Project #3, Post #1
For my third and final SPARK project, I’m going to continue building on lessons learned from Project 1 and Project 2. I’ve found Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 to be a powerful tool, but getting started is not a trivial process. Despite a sophisticated IDE, configuring and building running systems can be challenging, especially when […]
Layer-additive “welding” 3D fabrication
Electron Beam Free-Form Fabrication (EBF3) is a rapid prototyping technology developed by Karen Taminger of NASA’s Langley Research Center. Dr. Taminger is prone to market EBF3 by analogy to Star Trek style “replicator” technology, which is nothing but shameless hype. Still, the basic idea is an interesting twist on extrusion-based 3D printing technologies (although there’s not really any “extrusion” going on), and is under development with an eye towards space-based fabrication. Working in outer space would eliminate the system’s major ground-based shortcoming, which is the requirement for maintaining a vacuum or inert atmosphere to prevent oxidation of the weld.
