Latest from Mark Frauenfelder


Project: Wooden Salt Cellar

11/14/2011

By Mark Frauenfelder A couple of years ago I whittled a wooden spoon as a thank-you gift for our family...

The Dice Kit

11/13/2011

This is a fantastic introductory electronics kit that comes with your choice of large red or green LEDs and everything...

Tenor Wolfelele Ukulele

Tenor Wolfelele Ukulele

11/12/2011

It took me about 45 minutes (not including glue drying time) to put together a service-able ukulele from Wolfelele’s precut...

Cloning a Fluorescent Gene

Cloning a Fluorescent Gene

11/08/2011

When I told my 8-year-old daughter I had a kit to clone fluorescent jellyfish DNA, she was excited to try...

SpikerBox

SpikerBox

11/08/2011

This is a solder-together kit for studying the electrical impulses of cockroach neurons. The online instructions are excellent, with videos...

Solder: Time

Solder: Time

11/03/2011

Solder: Time was a perfect father-daughter project: my 8-year-old assembled the components and I soldered. Afterwards, she had a chunky blue wristwatch...

IN12 6 Tube Nixie Clock Kit

IN12 6 Tube Nixie Clock Kit

11/03/2011

Nixie tubes, beautiful relics of early computing, display their numerals with a quivery orange glow. Peter J. Jensen makes Nixie...

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