Madagascar Institute in Brooklyn, NY have some interesting classes coming up very soon at their Gowanus facility: Electrochemical Etching with Household Ingredients Dec 9 and 11 This class will teach you to transform flimsy paper images into indelible metal, using easily available materials and the magic of electrical ion transfer. Make authoritative brass plaques to […]
Dorkbot, the informal monthly presentation series for “people doing strange things with electricity,” will celebrate their 10-year anniversary tonight in NYC! If you’re in the area, you should swing by — Dorkbots are a ton of fun, and this is the one that started them all! Tonight’s event will include the standard three presentations, as […]
The Bell House in Gowanus, Brooklyn his hosting the 5th annual Carnivorous Nights Taxidermy Contest next Tuesday: Calling all science geeks, nature freaks, and rogue geniuses! Your stuffed squirrel got game? Got a beaver in your brownstone? Bring your beloved beast to the Bell House and enter it to win! The contest will be judged […]
I didn’t appreciate how entertaining it could be to watch people work molten metal, until I watched Robert Houllahan’s film of The Iron Guild pouring at The Steel Yard this Halloween.
Today marks the first anniversary of the birth of Polish-born, Franco-American mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot since his death on October 14. Mandelbrot worked in a variety of mathematical disciplines, but is best known as the “Father of Fractal Geometry.” He was well eulogized by the New York Times, and, more personally, by Rudy Rucker. Today he would’ve been 86.
There are lots of fun events going on this weekend at various hackerspaces. Here are three; leave a comments if your space is holding an event this weekend. Hack Factory clothesline race The Twin Cities’ hackerspace, the Hack Factory, is holding its latest clothesline race this Saturday from 1-6pm. Prizes include fabulous loot from MAKE, […]
LVL1, the Louisville hackerspace, is hosting a benefit concert for the White Star Balloon project, headlined by indie rock heros The Apples in stereo.
