Year: 2010

Meet Your Craft Faire Vendors

We’re in the home stretch! Maker Faire Detroit is less than three weeks away! If you’re coming out to check out all the fun, here’s a sneak peek at some of the great craft vendors you’ll get to meet. And don’t forget – discount tickets are still available until July 15! Don’t miss out!

Seeing A Star In A New Light

Catching up on some past Science Friday podcasts I ventured over to their site and checked out this great video they put together… NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), launched in February, has started to send back data. The instruments are giving solar scientists an unprecedented look at the sun, says Dean Pesnell, SDO project scientist. […]

Unusual building blocks based on close-packed spheres

Unusual building blocks based on close-packed spheres

Mathematician and artist George Hart (who writes our Math Monday column), created a cool set of six building blocks by slicing up and combining bits of these rhombic dodecahedra. Theoretically, the same set of blocks can be used to build tetrahedra and octahedra of any size. Thingiverse user Lenbok printed a set on a MakerBot. George’s are printed in nylon using selective laser sintering, and, as he points out, look a lot like fancy sugar cubes. I suppose you could print them on a CandyFab and make them actual sugar cubes. Or sugar Voronoi cells, rather.