Month: March 2011

Smoothie Recipes for Kids

My friend Heather has posted up three great smoothie recipes for kids that will surely taste good and give your kids all the great vitamins they need. Recipes are for strawberry granola crunch, orange julia, and pink-a-licious. I love the tip of putting nuts in smoothies for a more creamy, pudding-like texture. (Make sure kids […]

Awesome opportunity to work with MAKE!

MAKE is currently searching for a Maker Shed Evangelist to work with our ecommerce team. This is a contract position. You will seek out and curate cool new products for the Maker Shed store, develop our relationships with independent maker suppliers, as well as commercial suppliers, and evangelizes Maker Shed and its product offerings through […]

Collin’s Lab: Homebrew Piezo

Collin’s Lab: Homebrew Piezo

Piezoelectric materials are about as close to magic as you can get. They turn physical pressure into electricity and can even turn electricity into physical pressure – an amazing sort of bidirectional converter for mechanical and electrical energies. Perhaps even more amazing is the fact that you can easily ‘grow’ your own piezoelectric crystals overnight using just a couple of common ingredients – awesome.

How-To: Pop Rocks

How-To: Pop Rocks

If you have a little time and a lot of nostalgia for crackling candy, learn to make your own Pop Rocks with this Instructable from chickflix. Most of the ingredients are easy to find, and you’ll need a blunt object such as a hammer to break them up into pebbles. Enjoy your freshly-made candy while […]