Month: February 2013

Lego Peristaltic Syrup Pump

Lego Peristaltic Syrup Pump

I spent a rather absurd amount of time last summer trying to build my own peristaltic pump — which delivers liquids through a food-safe tube by massaging it. So when I saw Miguel Valenzuela’s Lego peristaltic pump at Maker Faire New York, I was stoked! It goes with his PancakeBot, which uses Lego robotics to […]

Superpowers, Monsters, Heavy Metal, and Game Controllers

Superpowers, Monsters, Heavy Metal, and Game Controllers

Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Pop Chart Lab produces engaging visual taxonomies, cartographies, compendiums, charts, and graphs. There’s something so satisfying about seeing strange data organized visually. Topics covered include The Illustrious Omnibus of Superpowers (featuring 300 heroes, anti-heros, villains, and beasts), The Diabolical Diagram of Movie Monsters, the Periodic Table of Heavy Metals (covering 303 head-banging bands), […]