Kids & Family

GeekDad at Rocket Mavericks

GeekDad at Rocket Mavericks

In response to our high power rocket post, Ken Denmead of GeekDad points us to coverage on their blog of the Rocket Mavericks event, with some awesome pics. The first one above is a time-lapsed night photo. The author of the piece, Steve Jurvetson, writes: …the motor failed, and broke the rocket in two, but […]

Robotic sea bream

Pink Tentacle points us to this amazing looking sea bream robot. Tai-robot-kun’s creator, professor Ikuo Yamamoto, says the robot can easily be mass-produced, outfitted with various cameras and sensors, and released into the sea to perform a wide range of oceanographic survey tasks. He adds that because the robot swims silently and looks like a […]

Bruce Gray kinetic musical sculpture

Tyler over at Oddstrument Collection did a wonderful interview with sculptor Bruce Gray. I really love this piece of his, it’s all jangly and clashy. BG: I think that any sculpture that is designed to produce at least one musical tone can be considered a musical sculpture. Many of my sculptures could also have multiple […]

DIY Spectroscope

It isn’t that often that you can make a functioning scientific instrument from recycled junk lying around your house. The video shows you how to make a spectroscope out of a cardboard tube an old CD and some card-stock. Looks like a fun project to make with the kids. DIY Spectroscope Save money with this […]