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Tinkering School

Gever writes – “Back for it’s second year, the group that built a rollercoaster in two days is accepting applications for the summer sessions. This year we are offering two weeks of barely controlled chaos for kids ages 7 to 17 – call it tinkering, call it materials hacking, or call it “fooling around like […]

Rapid Products

Rapid Products

Regine over on We-Make-Money-Not-Art has a great round up of rapid prototyping from Ron Arad’s students of Design Product at RCA in London – “Rapid prototyping was developed as a way of producing prototypes for intricate medical and automotive components. A more accurate name for it is 3D printing, as it builds up objects layer […]

DIY PC Virtual impact suit

DIY PC Virtual impact suit

Spook8000 writes – “The PC Virtual Impact Suit takes in-game bullet hit events into real life physical impacts on player’s body. It currently supports the popular Half-Life 3D first-person-shooter game, and connects to the PC via a USB port. “ – Link. No idea if anyone built this, but an impact vest looks like a […]

Power Tool Drag Racing

Power Tool Drag Racing

Scott writes – “The date and registration info for this year’s The Power Tool Drag Races has been announced” – When: Sunday, May 7th, 2006, 12:00 Noon Until We’re Done! Where: The Ace International Speedway! HOW MUCH: $10 kids 7-17, $15 adults, kids 6 and under have to do a silly dance. Blown Big-Block Belt […]

I Am 8-Bit contest winners

I Am 8-Bit contest winners

The ten winners of the first annual retro art contest from IGN are up! – “April 10, 2006 – On March 14th, we issued a challenge to all of the aspiring artists reading IGN: create a piece of art inspired by the 8-bit era of videogaming, and you’ll have a shot at getting your creation […]