Grow It Yourself – 3D Printing Living Structures
Pioneering bioartist Oron Catts will give a two-part workshop and lecture at Brooklyn’s Genspace later this month.
centrifuge
Lego centrifuge
Yoshihito Isogawa’s ingenious centrifuge uses Lego Power Functions (think NXT without the microcontroller) elements to power it, and uses a IR remote control to start and stop! [via The NXT STEP]
Make a lab centrifuge out of a salad spinner
Forget the laboratory supply store, you can score a centrifuge on late-night TV! I recently visited a lab that had a salad spinner on their lab bench and at first I wondered if they were putting together a salad lunch there but when I took a peek I got a nice surprise. It turns out […]
Meccano/Nexus One lava-lamp-testing centrifuge!
Neil Fraser’s Lava Lamp Centrifuge is 10′ across, weighs 50 pounds, and spins at 42 rpm generating 3 Gs. It uses a Nexus One’s accelerometer to measure g-force. Excellent! Will lava lamps work in a high-gravity environment such as Jupiter? This topic spawned considerable lunch-time discussion and no clear consensus emerged. Most people initially assumed […]
