Catching up on some past Science Friday podcasts I ventured over to their site and checked out this great video they put together… NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), launched in February, has started to send back data. The instruments are giving solar scientists an unprecedented look at the sun, says Dean Pesnell, SDO project scientist. […]
From squirrels on wheels to pigs with wigs the whimsical knit toy world of crafter Anna Hrachovec of Mochimochi Land comes together in her new book, Knitting Mochimochi. As a frequent contributer to CRAFT, I’ve always enjoyed the cute knit toys Anna creates. She blows my mind even more with this book where 20 new […]
Mathematician and artist George Hart (who writes our Math Monday column), created a cool set of six building blocks by slicing up and combining bits of these rhombic dodecahedra. Theoretically, the same set of blocks can be used to build tetrahedra and octahedra of any size. Thingiverse user Lenbok printed a set on a MakerBot. George’s are printed in nylon using selective laser sintering, and, as he points out, look a lot like fancy sugar cubes. I suppose you could print them on a CandyFab and make them actual sugar cubes. Or sugar Voronoi cells, rather.
These homemade “homegrown” potato chips from Vintage Chica look like a perfect summer snack.
Anish Kapoor and Factum Arte developed a cement printing process to create the art piece Greyman cries, Shaman Dies, Billowing Smoke, Beauty Evoked.
Found this on Bored Panda, in a round-up of cool, wacky inventions from the past. Apparently the paper-roll map advanced based on the speed of the car. But wait, what happened when you turned onto a new street? You’d have to have quite the library of map-scrolls stashed in your car, and be doing a […]
I love patterns! I think that my love of patterns comes from growing up in a house that had crazy wallpaper in every room. I would spend endless amounts of time staring at the wall looking for the repeat. (Yes, I was a strange child.) Some of my favorite patterns come from the mind and […]
