How-To: Make a Clothespin Menorah
Jessica at Scrumdilly-Do shows you how you can make a clothespin menorah with your kids. It’s a fun way for them to learn about Hanukkah with no fire involved!
Month: November 2010
A look inside an aircraft repair plant
Folks really liked Russian microwave factory, so here’s another – A look inside an aircraft repair plant…. Take a stroll around the shops of Vnukovo aircraft repair plant – the center of technical service and repair of civil aircrafts of domestic and foreign manufacture.
Collin’s Lab: USB Hacking with Arduino
Collin does a little hacking to get his USB-based MIDI keyboard to talk to his Arduino.
Make Your Own Lego Kingdoms Advent Calendar
If you’re like me, you probably missed the boat on the Lego Kingdoms Advent Calendar for the 2010 holiday season. Here in metro Detroit, they’re impossible to come by. That got me and Lego Maniac Rachel Hobson thinking – why don’t we make our own?! I took Rachel up on the challenge and decided to […]
How-To: Build a Lego Death Star ornament
Chris McVeigh brings us this adorable pint-sized holiday version of everyone’s favorite futuristic superweapon of interstellar genocide. You’ll need Lego Digital Designer to read his files. [via The Brothers Brick]
Engineer Guy vs. the flight data recorder
Bill Hammack’s video confection is especially sweet this week. Bill scored a vintage Delta “black box” on eBay and, in this week’s installment, tears it apart on camera to show you how they built ’em in the old days to stand up to “three-thousand gees and one-thousand degrees.” I just watched it, and I’m having a hard time resisting my ebullient urge to spoil the ending for you, so I’ll just shut up and let Engineer Guy take it away. [Thanks, Bill!]
Botacon
Save the date: Botacon, a new conference for robots and the people who are creative near them, is happening next weekend at the Brooklyn Lyceum. If you’re at all interested in robots and the robot art world, it should be a great time: A new day is dawning for robotics. The tools of manufacturing have […]