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NASAโs Amazing Space project has a monthly Tactile Astronomy feature that provides public-domain files for printing โfeelableโ versions of Hubbleโs deep space photographs on special printers:
The Make: Electronics Components Pack 1 includes all the parts you need to perform experiments 1-11 from our incredibly popular Make: Electronics book by Charles Platt.
What I look for in a project, more than any other single quality, is doing a lot with a little. This โwave machineโ demo from the UKโs National STEM Centre, targeted to science teachers for classroom use, is a great example. Itโs just duct tape, wooden skewers, and gummy bears, but it creates some really striking, beautiful effects when set in motion. I want to make one in my living room just to play with. Their licensing terms forbid embedding of the video, but itโll be worth your click to hop on over to STEM and watch it move.
How cool is that? From Blurgh! The ThinkGeek Blog:
We have a problem. And itโs growing at a rate proportional to our return pile. We canโt, in good conscience, resell damaged electronics. And we canโt donate them to charityโthe saddest kid in the world is one with a handheld video game that wonโt turn on. Garbage, then? Not good for the environment. Luckily for us, thereโs an entire class of scavengers out there ready to pick the bones of our helicopters, keyboards, and interactive t-shirts: hackers, makers, and crafty techy types.
Theyโre even polling interest in a possible subscription service. [Thanks, John!]
A while ago MAKE did a post on A Beginning Engineer’s Checklist from the PIClist site. And while I love these kind of lists, it left me – as a mechanical engineering – feeling a little left out, with all the talk of chips and Ohm’s Law and power busses (oh my!). It also reminded […]
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this cool vid from Jessica Rosenkrantz featuring a simple Hele-Shaw cell, which, per Wikipedia, demonstrates โStokes Flow between two parallel flat plates separated by an infinitesimally small gap.โ Further, โ[v]arious problems in fluid mechanics can be approximated to Hele-Shaw flows and thus the research of these flows is of importance.โ
The MintDuino is perfect for anyone interested in learning (or teaching) the fundamentals of how micro controllers work.
