@The NYC Toy fair 2008 I toured the Thames and Kosmos area, one of the best of the entire Toy Fair. Thames & Kosmos currently offers 55 science kits on: Energy, technology, electronics, chemistry, biology, physics, natural history, earth science and others. Pictured here, the Radio Ace DIY tube radio kit. Computer Systems Engineering kit […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 I met with the ÃœBERSTIX folks, they make toys/kits that you need to recycle other things to build. Straws, ice cream sticks, paper clips, water bottles, egg cartons and more. Pictured here is a ship you build and use tossed cups/bottles to make it float, along with other trashed items […]
mp4 | 3gp |3g2 | iTunes | blip.tv This week on the best of Weekend Projects with Bre Pettis, we join him in arms and learn how to make a trebuchet. With a trebuchet, you can smash your enemy’s castle or at least fling the heads of enemy spies into their courtyard. In the old […]
From Geekdad: The KidWind Project is run out of Michael Arquin’s basement in St. Paul, MN, and is all about educating kids about wind power. One part of this is offering really cool wind turbine kits from their website for home assembly and use in science fair presentations. These kits look like great Geekdad family […]
MP4 Video | QT Video | HD | Subscribe in iTunes I visited Bonnie Burton at Lucasfilm in San Francisco recently where she works her crafty magic creating projects on starwars.com for the kids section of the site. Take a look and enjoy some of the fun projects she makes. All I can say is […]
Jan writes in with a free app for Dutchtronix AVR Oscilloscope Clock owners (I have one, it’s great). He writes – This is an Open Source Application which allows you to use your Oscilloscope as a text based display device. The code is currently targetted for the Dutchtronix AVR Oscilloscope Clock hardware but could be […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Eric submitted pics of his Chronulator build featuring a recycled circuit board housing – nice way to increase the “What the-?!?” factor. Remember we love to see your projects, so submit them to the pool! Chronulator on Flickr – Link Related: The Chronulator kit –Link
