SheekGeek has a lot of great educational robotics kits for all ages… Picture here, The W.A.S.P – The W.A.S.P Original Robotic Kit is designed to help introduce children age 12 and up to robotics, electronics, and mechanics. The name W.A.S.P stands for “Wiggling and Spinning Photovore” which describes the action and the type of the […]
Every month on the Paper Quilt blog 12 paper packets are sent out to 12 artists who will create their own piece of the quilt. Pictured above is piece created by artist Tiel Seivl-Keevers. Check out this inspiring project. New paper quilts happen each month. Link.
Like bleepity bloopity music and in the NY area? Check out tranzducer.002, February 23, 2007 – 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm Brooklyn, NYC– …friend-of-LEMURplex Bob Huott’s band FRYLAB will be playing a mixture of acoustic and electronic: tenor sax, bass, extended baritone guitar, and the bean, a new electronic instrument. Jane Rigler, flutist and electronic […]
Mike sent in this awesome Wanky the safety cat project – When I got my first beater car as a proto-hoon of 16, my dad had some excellent advice, straight from the Midwestern heartland where he learned about wrenching: “Son,” he said, squinting at my barely-running Corona, popping the top on his can of Old […]
It’s official coffee is the solution to, and cause of, every problem… National Geographic – It’s hardly a coincidence that coffee and tea caught on in Europe just as the first factories were ushering in the industrial revolution. The widespread use of caffeinated drinks–replacing the ubiquitous beer–facilitated the great transformation of human economic endeavor from […]
Cat of Cut Out + Keep has a cute quick project on how to make a fabric head band. Link.
Ajit writes – A short documentary about a man and his family building a Medieval Castle in upstate New York. No design experience. He wanted to build a house and the first section looked like a castle so he switched to building a full fledged castle. They have been doing this for more than 25 […]
