Month: June 2007

Sonny Rolle’s wire art

Sonny Rolle’s wire art

Jason writes in – Sonny Rolle is a Rhode Island artist who works with wire – among other materials, he’s also an illustrator. These images are all made from strands of flexible, coated wire. The detail is amazing, considering the medium. Rag & Bone Blog: Sonny Rolle – Link & gallery.

The K’NEX computer

The K’NEX computer

Matt Donahoe, Jeff DeCew, and Olek Lorenc are students at Olin College trying to build a computer entirely out of K’NEX parts for their Computer Architecture class… The K’NEX calculator stands over 10 feet tall, and can perform 4 bit addition and subtraction operations in about 30 seconds. The slowest part of the operation is […]

World’s oldest car for sale

World’s oldest car for sale

The world’s oldest car is up for sale, low miles, only two owners… steam powered – A steam-powered car, billed as the oldest car in the world that still runs, will be sold in a Pebble Beach, Calif., auction in August. The car was built in France in 1884, about a year before Gottlieb Daimler […]

CDC-Disease cards

CDC-Disease cards

The CDC made a series of cards you can collect, trade and share… of diseases. They were created to get middle school kids interested in science and health. Apparently they’re out of stock, but you can go to the site and download the files to print out. Here’s some West Nile. More: Sick Idea: CDC […]