Gever Tulley, co-author of 50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do) and founder of the Tinkering School will be giving a talk tonight at Parsons the New School for Design in NYC, so if you missed him at Maker Faire, here’s your chance! A self-taught computer scientist who holds multiple technology patents, Gever’s […]
Chris Connors on Make: Online snapped this quick video of the New York Hall of Science crew mixing a big vat of oobleck, a non-newtonian fluid consististing of cornstarchand water. They had kids jumping on the stuff all weekend during Maker Faire, to the delight of participants and onlookers.
The leaves are changing, cool weather is blowing in. Children lie awake at night wondering what to choose for their costume and dreaming about the legendary candy hauls of yore. They also remember the coolest houses. You know, the ones whose owners went all-out decorating for the season. Scarecrows, cobwebs, and jack-o-lanterns startling and delighting […]
I just love these illustrations from Dustyn Roberts’ Making Things Move book. Drawn by Sean Comeaux, they elegantly demonstrate the famous ‘water analogy’ of electrical theory. Excerpted from Making Things Move (McGraw-Hill; 2010) by Dustyn Roberts, with permission by McGraw-Hill.
Shawnee of Life With Monkey shares a simple pattern and instructions for sewing up cute Day of the Dead skulls. It would be fun to whip up a whole batch and then get friends together to decorate them all!
Porcelain Pistol by … The Porcelain Pistols are replicas of James Bond’s Walther PPK and its contemporary sister, the P99,with friendly permission of Carl Walther Inc.The fragile weapon, hand-painted in the style of classic tableware motifs, liesnext to your coffee and cake, asking to be picked up. Its coolness andcomfortable grip increase the qualms of […]
Subscriber RocketGuy tipped us off to this EPFL School of Engineering project involving a fleet of swarming flying robots. Using an ant-inspired swarming algorithm running on a Linux SBC, this network of swarming micro air vehicles is purportedly the largest of its kind.
