FBI Tracking Device Teardown
Our pals at iFixit have scored a pretty sweet scoop with this photo-dissection of the guts of an official FBI bumper-beeper.
Education
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Skill Builder: CRAFT’s Kitchen 101 Tutorials
Food month could not have come at a better time. Spring has us wanting to…um… make delectable dishes to fill our bellies, without ballooning our waistlines. Over the years, CRAFT has been putting together a series of essential tips to jump-start smart cooking habits. Among other things, you’ll learn steps to keep yourself and your […]
Chemistry Set Boasts “No Chemicals”
In point of fact, I have some empathy for the makers of this Chemistry 60 educational laboratory kit. They are, after all, just responding to the demands of the market, and we at MAKE actually have some first-hand experience of how hard it is, these days, to manufacture, market, and/or distribute chemistry sets that donโt, for lack of a better word, suck. So I post this not so much in the spirit of โshame on such-and-soโ for creating this astounding oxymoron of a product, but rather to lament the general state of affairs we have come to thanks to litigiousness, chemophobia, and flagging scientific literacy. There has got to be a way back. [via C&E News]
Purdue Claims World Record Goldberg Machine
It starts with the Big Bang, re-creates the extinction of the dinosaurs, holds a jousting competition, flips over an album, and simulates World War II, a shuttle launch, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and even the alleged apocalypse in 2012. In its precisely executed review of history, “The Time Machine,” a Rube Goldberg contraption built by members of the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers and Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, incorporates a record-breaking 244 steps—all to water a single flower.
Why A Speeding Bicycle Tends To Stay Upright
Although I can’t say I’d care to try, or can in good conscience recommend, that trick where you let go of the handlebars at speed and sit upright in the saddle with your hands at your sides, this video from Ira Flatow’s Science Friday helps explain why it works. [Thanks, Laura!]
NASA Make Challenge Webcast – Tuesday 4/19 11am PT/ 2pm ET
We’re hosting an impromptu webcast for the NASA Make Challenge next Tuesday! Dale Dougherty hosts: The NASA Make Challenge is an invitation for makers to participate in the exploration of space and give students an opportunity to build an experimental kit that can be flown on a future space flight. These experiments will be based […]
Open MAKE, THIS Saturday, April 16th, 10am – 2pm, at the Exploratorium
Wood is the theme for this month’s Open MAKE/Young Makers program at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Four featured makers will be interviewed by MAKE’s Dale Dougherty in the McBean Theater, between 1pm and 2pm, and they’ll be talking about their work and process, and taking questions from the audience. Makers include: Scott Weaver will […]
