Homemade Bubbles
Amy at Mom advice made a batch of homemade bubbles for her kids. Amy mentions that this homemade version is easy to make particularly for smaller children.
Kids & Family
Self-made instruments by Adachi Tomomi
Adachi Tomomi is a Japanese musician and sound poet. Make has covered his Tupperware synths before – his lower-tech work like the Tomoring is even more re-makeable. Tomoring is exceptional instruments because it is not electronic but electric. It has many springs, metal wire, strings and so on. It is to hit, scrub by fingers, […]
The Crafty Crow Funny Food Contest for Kids
Cassi of Bella Dia has a contest going on at her other blog, The Crafty Crow, a site for kids crafts. It’s a Funny Food contest for kids and their helpers! Deadline for entries is June 22nd.
Zoomable Coma Cluster
The Hubble site has just released an incredible zoomable image of the Coma Cluster. (Wow! You can also download images to make a mural!) The entire cluster encompasses a spherical shape more than 20 million light-years in diameter, more than 300 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Coma Berenices. Hubble’s mega-view takes in […]
LEGO NXT image scanner
Anders Søborg built an amazing scanner that can use either the light sensor that comes with the NXT or a HiTechnic color sensor. Each line of the image is created by moving the sensor over the image at a constant speed while recording the position and corresponding sensor values with a fixed sample rate. The […]
Build Heron’s Fountain
Teach your kids a little engineering history with this fun fountain project.
Robofish will go where we can’t
Kristi Morgansen of the University of Washington, has been working on developing underwater robots that are maneuverable, not disruptive to the environment, and can work as a team to collect data in 3 D’s situations – that is, jobs that are dirty, dull, and dangerous. While most ocean robots require periodic communication with scientist or […]