All around our neighborhood, Halloween decorations are making their appearance. My kids keep asking me when we are going to start decorating our house, and I have to admit I’ve just been waiting to be inspired. I think this cheesecloth ghost from Tuesdee of Everyday is Crafting Day has done the trick. It looks like […]
Designed for beginners, the LED Dice kit from the Maker Shed comes with everything you need to make your own ‘Electronic Die’. Just tap the completed Dice kit on the table and the LEDs light up, displaying a random number from 1 to 6. After a short period of time the LED dice will go […]
Part of this problem, posed by one Ernst Straus in 1952, is to design a polygonal room lined with mirrors having at least two points such that any ray starting at one point can reflect around the room forever without hitting the other point, and vice versa. One such room, shown above, was demonstrated by […]
2010 Nobel prize in physics goes to Andre Geim & Konstantin Novoselov. Graphene – the perfect atomic lattice. A thin flake of ordinary carbon, just one atom thick, lies behind this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov have shown that carbon in such a flat form has exceptional properties that originate […]
Caffaknitted shows us her clever design for knitting a boombox that holds mini speakers and your iPod or iPhone. While she doesn’t have a knitting pattern, per se, seeing how she made hers and working off of your own measurements, you can whip one up too and let the warm and fuzzy beats flow.
Split Reaction built a giant Mega Claw Game for the World Maker Faire in NYC, wowing the crowd and winning the Editors’ Choice award. We wanted to wow the crowd and build something awesome, a project that would inspire kids to become makers and engineers. Also it had to be fun to build so of […]
Our friends at Lion Brand Yarn Studio point us to this handy online amigurumi pattern generator. You can adjust the size, shape and placement of the parts of the figure and once you are satisfied, a simple click generates the pattern for the amigurumi. It looks like it could be a good place to get […]
