DIY Spongeballs
I love these photos of DIY spongeballs on Aesthetic Outburst! We posted a spongeball tutorial here back in 2008, but I figured this summer is hot enough to require a reminder!
Month: July 2011
News From The Future: Make Your Own Pet Mammoth – Synthetic Biology
…recreating the mammoth by starting with an elephant’s genome and changing it at the 400,000 sites at which elephant DNA differs from that of the mammoth.
Two Years of Tiny Knitting: an Interview with Anna Hrachovec
Back in 2009, Anna Hrachovec figured out how to knit a tiny brain. That little project touched off a two-year Tiny Challenge: Anna created a new tiny design every weekday for the first month, and then continued with a new design each week after that. As of today, she’s still challenging herself to come up […]
Top 10: Swarmbots!
I first wanted to call this post “When ‘Bots Attack” or something similarly FOX-esque, but couldn’t bring myself to do it. There’s been plenty of alarmism about robots recently, and swarming robots are particularly juicy targets for people looking to stir up controversy since there seems to be something particularly loathsome and/or frightening to us about swarming creatures in general.
Math Monday: Shadowfolds
Pleats created in pieces of fabric to create geometric patterns are known as Shadowfolds. Here’s how to fold your own.
How-To: Gnome Lawn Bowling Game
Bowling, garden gnomes, recycling – what’s not to love about this project?
Recipe: Make Homemade Fruit Leather
By Katie Goodman Fruit Roll-Ups are fun treats, but they’re not exactly something I want my kids eating every day. I recently experimented with making homemade fruit leather. It’s so good! Recipes like this are perfect for when you have lots of less-than-prime fruit on hand that needs to be used up fast. In this […]
