Month: February 2008

Ping Pong Ball-istics

Ping Pong Ball-istics

From the MAKE Flickr pool. Kamakaze Physics posted these pics of an aluminum can being being punctured by a ping pong ball at “near sonic speed”. –Link There’s also some great video by the NIT Physics Lab from some of their other shooting experiments: Related: Backyard Ballistics book @ The Maker Store –Link

USB monkey

USB monkey

From the MAKE Flickr pool 0olong bring us this functional figurine – Stick his neck in your USB socket and he’ll unload his data at your whim. A pre-existing USB drive decorated with epoxy putty (a mix of Sylmasta A+B and SuperCarve) plus a couple of beads for eyes. Flash drives are so affordale now, […]