A Balloon-Powered Paper Plate Racer Made From Household Materials
Got some cooped-up kids with time to kill? Help them give their time an efficient execution with some balloon-powered paper plate racers.
Year: 2014
How-To: Herb Garden Coffee Table
Create a handy mini kitchen garden right in the middle of your outdoor relaxation space with this herb garden coffee table tutorial!
Edison: A Peek Into the Design of The Robot Anyone Can Afford
Electronics and playing LEGO have always been passions of mine. As a child I had a monster collection of LEGO and drooled over my ‘Dick Smith Electronics’ catalogue filled electronics parts and kits (Australian version of Radio Shack/Tandy). As I enter my 40th year, I am finally bringing these two passions together with Edison. Edison […]
Throwing a Cream Cheese Bowl on a Pottery Wheel
In response to potters who’ve said that “porcelain clay is like cream cheese” when it gets too wet, Yoko Sekino-Bové conducted a little experiment.
Are “Personalized” 3D-Printed Objects Going Mainstream?
Amazon launched a 3D Printing Store a few months ago, but only recently have they been promoting the Creative Expressions department, which encourages customers to adjust the parameters of the 3D printed items they order. Just move the sliders, above, and you can make that ring super big, more knotty, and silver instead of gold. This […]
How To Emulate Rare and Retro Platforms on the Raspberry Pi
It’s quite likely that most Raspberry Pis in the wild are running Raspbian, the stock operating system that’s based on the Debian distribution of Linux. And if you’ve gone through the Raspberry Pi NOOBs installation process, you’ll know that there are a few other choices for operating systems such as Arch, Pidora, and RISC OS. […]
The Secret Location of a Tiny Postal Service in a Tree!
A tiny postal service has been quietly operating out of a knothole in a tree along a hiking trail in the hills above Berkley since last December, but now, the creators of “The World’s Smallest Post Office” want to announce its secret location!
