Math Monday: Try a Torus
Learn how to make a torus model and then how to create a 7-color Ungar-Leech map on it.
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!
This Sundial Spells Solstice
Four times a year, when our planet is in the appropriate alignment with the sun, the shadow this sundial casts onto the ground spells out either “solstice” or “equinoxe.”
How-To: Satellite Imagery Throws Pillows
In case you haven’t heard the name before, Spoonflower is a print-on-demand custom fabric service that can indelibly print your images on a roll of fabric up to 58″ wide. Andrew@CRAFT just spotted this promotional project from their guest author, Emma Jeffrey, showing off one of the many cool possibilities this service opens up: pillows, cushions, or other upholstery with customized satellite imagery of your location.
The Golden Frog’s Arduino Utopia
Cultural anthropologist Eben Kirksey brings citizen science to Brooklyn, using an Arduino and the history of two frogs to educate the public.
Stair-Navigating Skateboard
Po-Chih Lai’s Stair Rover is designed to traverse stairs as easily as flat surfaces. The piece aims to expanding the capability and possibility of extreme sports as we understand them. Inherited from our natural instincts, sliding as children and snowboarding as adults, the focus is on one of the most influential and stimulating sports – […]
How-To: Extract and Process Natural Clay
This two-part series from Eddie Starnater of Practical Primitive shows you how to extract the clay from raw soil and process it into a material that can be used for pottery. In the first part, Eddie teaches a simple water extraction process that uses a series of mixing and decanting steps to remove sand and silt, followed by pouch filtration to remove excess water. In part two…
Engineer Guy vs. The Microwave Oven
The elements of the week are tungsten and thorium, which are alloyed to make the filament in the special type of vacuum tube—called a magnetron—that produces radiation in your microwave oven. Bill and the Engineer Guy team first explain the anatomy of a basic microwave oven, then…