Tooka Doll Craft
Bonnie at StarWars.com shows kids how to make a Tooka Doll just like Numa’s from The Clone Wars.
Kids & Family
How-To: Make a Pot of Gold
I remember being a kid and being certain that there was a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow. I’d follow the colored arch through the sky and down to the ground and try to figure out exactly where it ended. Of course, my searches were fruitless, but that hasn’t stopped me from […]
US FIRST regional competitions
A few weekends ago I had the chance to check out the Northeast regionals for USFIRST in Boston. Above, Matt and Chris of Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School, Team 61 tell about being involved. Here is a segment of one round of the competition: Norwell High School has a great robotics program mentored […]
R2-D2 builders at WonderCon
Our pal Bonnie Burton, from The Official Star Wars Blog, caught up with some of the members of Astromech, the R2-D2 builders club, at WonderCon, and asked them a few questions about the ins and outs of droid construction. Can you describe what the R2-D2 Builders group is all about We’re a loosely organized international […]
Floating hamster balls for kids
This looks like it could be fun/dangerous. It might be fun to set them up in a big field and let the kids roll wild. Maybe get access to a dead mall and roll away. Kid hamster ball soccer anyone? Have you ever seen these things in the wild? Do you have pictures? What is […]
Animated papercraft explanations
CommonCraft has a neat way of explaining complex ideas. They use a simple format of paper cutouts and figures with a voiceover. Recently, there has been a bunch of buzz about Twitter, and a number of references have been made to their work explaining how Twitter works. Here they explain Google Documents: There are so […]
Jar-lid vibrobot
Yet another vibrobot design, this one made out of a metal jar lid, motor, switch, and battery. Killer Jar Lid Robot is Coming For You!