Math Monday: Coffee Stirrers
Nick Sayers enjoys making geometric constructions from unusual materials. Here’s an organic-looking sculpture he made from 630 coffee stirrers, with “blobs” protruding in the twelve directions of a dodecahedron’s faces.
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!
Last Shuttle Launch as Seen from a Plane Window
By way of our pals at LaughingSquid comes this amazing window snap of this morning’s Atlantis launch. So great! Our very own Rachel Hobson was there with the press and will be filing a report later.
News From The Future: Synthetic organ transplants
“Surgeons have performed the first transplant operation using an organ wholly grown in a laboratory to give a man a new windpipe. The 36-year-old is recovering after surgeons implanted the world’s first wholly lab-grown organ into his body.”
Wave Simulator Draws Realtime Data from a Bouy
This installation draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. The wave intensity and frequency is scaled and transferred to the mechanical grid structure installed at The National Museum in Wroclaw, Poland.
Superdetailed Hardwood Scale Model of Caterpillar 5230B Excavator
This beautiful model by Bloomingdale, Michiganโs Woodchuck and Company is listed for almost $40,000 on Etsy: “Constructed of cherry and walnut, this award-winning piece has over 4000 individual handcrafted parts and requiredover 3000 man-hours to complete…”
Graphic Novel With Thought Bubbles Visible Only Under UV
What a clever gimmick! SVK is written by Transmetropolitan author Warren Ellis, illustrated by Matt Brooker, and published in โcollaborationโ with London-based design studio BERG (whatever that means). ยฃ10 plus shipping gets you the book and a small UV-LED flashlight for viewing the thought bubbles. [via adafruit]
The Panterragaffe, a Rideable Strandbeest
As we previewed last month, the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire featured the Panterragaffe, an ambulatory vehicle inspired by Theo Janssen’s famous Strandbeests. Panterragaffe is a pedal powered two person walking machine, a walking bicycle. The name has a few elements to it. It’s a play on pantograph, which is a mechanism for copying drawings, since […]
