Math Monday: Grocery Geometry Revisited
We’re taking a break this week from linkages to follow up on the Grocery Geometry column from a few months ago. More possibilities for mixing food and math crop up constantly, so it’s time to share a couple.
Science
DIY science is the perfect way to use your creative skills and learn something new. With the right supplies, some determination, and a curious mind, you can create amazing experiments that open up a whole world of possibilities. At home-made laboratories or tech workshops, makers from all backgrounds can explore new ideas by finding ways to study their environment in novel ways – allowing them to make breathtaking discoveries!
Human-Powered Helicopters: Straight Up Difficult
Check out this great NPR piece about engineering students at University of Maryland that are trying to win a three-decades-old contest for human powered flight.
Math Monday: Linkages, Part 8: In Search of Straightness
In the second column in this series, we witnessed the incredible complexity that a simple four-bar linkage can create: it will, in general, draw a path described by a sixth-degree polynomial in x and y. But what about simpler functions, maybe much simpler? Can a linkage draw a linear path in x and y?
Prebacked Health Hackathon to Front More Than $100k in Prizes, Oct 19-21
Calling all maker-entrepreneurs in the healthcare space. Here’s an opportunity to get your startup funded on the fast track at Prebacked Health, a hackathon with serious funding on the line, October 19-21, 2012. Awards totaling more than $100k are up for grabs. The typical route for early stage startups is to think of an idea, […]
Tree Stump Table
17 Apart did it again with an awesome tree stump hair pin leg table. They really have a way of creating chic home decor, as shown in a previous CRAFT post on their DIY mercury glass vase.
DIY Laundry Detergent
For a substance that’s supposed to get your clothes clean, laundry detergent does a dirty job on the environment and your own health. So why not make your own?
DIY Satellite Will Blink Morse Code for All the World to See
Professor Takushi Tanaka and his team at the Fukuoka Institute of Technology built a 10 centimeter cube-shaped micro-satellite called the FITSAT-1. It was deployed from the International Space Station on October 5, 2012 and is currently whizzing over our heads at an elevation of 242 miles.