Ocean power 10/27/2009 Capturing the same powerful forces that destroyed the Tacoma Narrows Bridge shortly after it was built, researchers at the University...
William Kamkwamba at MIT 10/25/2009 William has been a classic maker since he was very young. One of the most powerful stories they told was...
Making Football Hero 10/22/2009 We never do the same thing twice, and the projects can be pretty stressful as we're always taking a risk...
CD scrounged drawing machine 10/22/2009 It's actually a drawing machine. It's built from two stepper motors I salvaged from come old CD-ROM drives. You can't...
MassTEC Conference 10/18/2009 Last week, at the annual MassTEC conference an interesting collection of science and technology teachers gathered to share experiences and...
Mark’s violin update 10/18/2009 Mark Williams' electric violin, which he has been building over the past few months is nearly complete. Other than the...
Street View’s embedded videos 10/15/2009 Phil Clandillon has a cool new video project featuring Google Earth mashups with panoramic images of specific locations relating to...
Junkbot student videos 10/11/2009 As a summation assignment for the CD scrounging, battery pack and junkbot project, students made videos showing their junkbot. In...
Real-time energy monitoring 10/11/2009 A few months ago I met Mike Costa at Design Continuum. He had a Chumby on his desk which was...
Chutney jar PCB etch 10/03/2009 I had two circuit boards nagging me to be etched this morning. Without a photo developing tray, it seemed some...
