For the Museum of Mathematics I have been remiss. I wrote an entire column on arrangements of great circles without once mentioning Buckminster Fuller. His original designs for domes involved bracing them solely with arcs of great circles. Since, on the surface of a sphere a great circle is the shortest path, or geodesic, between […]
By Maris Callahan For a lot of people, September means back to school. For me, September means apple picking, whether it’s driving to a “pick-your-own” farm or spending a morning rummaging through crates of apples at the local farmers market. In my house, apple season usually results in fresh applesauce, apple strudel, and obviously, apple […]
Are there LEGO geeks in your life? Make gift-giving extra special with LEGO gift boxes!
I have a bit of a thing for tea towels, and calendars, and, well, tea towel calendars! So Spoonflower’s 2013 Tea Towel Calendar contest is perfect eye candy. I love this blue and white one, but it was hard to choose a favorite. Buy a few fat quarters and you have an easy sewing project […]
Simon de Bakker and Jon Stam built this video viewer which allows you to view movies off of a flash card, one frame at a time. The Bioscope uses a Raspberry Pi with a custom shield, and the case was 3D printed. Inspired by an early movie projector of the same name, the Bioscope is […]
Don’t let the wrong zipper stop you from finishing a project, learn how to shorten metal zippers with this helpful tutorial!
Just another way to successfully combine nutella and cupcakes, presented by Kitchen Treaty.
