Who said making a Trebuchet has to be an all day project? This version took less than 2 hours to build and the results are great. The tennis ball flew 30′, which is fairly impressive. You should be able to get even better results some slight modifications. The purpose of this project was to design […]
Street Anatomy has launched a cool new sister site, Think Anatomy. I found that reading an anatomy textbook, sitting in lecture, and dissecting in lab weren’t enough to really master anatomy. So I turned to the Internet to find resources like dissection videos, interactives, games, quizzes, etc., to supplement my study material. It took a […]
Macula offers a free download of this boxy little Thanksgiving turkey papercraft – a fun holiday project for kids!
Tim is a high school senior doing an independent study. An important part of his work is to learn and document his process with the Shopbot. In order to improve on this first design I modified the top to be 14 inches in diameter as opposed to the original 16 inch diameter, which some people […]
Wow – a Shell oil remotely operated vehicle in the Gulf of Mexico caught footage of this amazing squid! Based on analysis of videos not unlike the one captured at the Perdido site, scientists know that the adult Magnapinna observed to date range from 5 to 23 feet (1.5 to 7 meters) long, Vecchione said. […]
This is a wonderful animated short that was shown at the Encounters Short Film Festival. It’s called “Don’t Let It All Unravel”, it was directed by Sarah Cox, and all the action is knitted – or frogged (un-knitted). (Thanks, Melody!)
Anyone can make their own flaming, fuming, booming DIY chemistry set as good as those from the golden age, or better!
