Garth of Extreme Craft had the Zen Paintball booth at Maker Faire and was pleasantly surprised by the parents. The Zen Paintball booth was a smashing (splatting?) success. I should’ve seen it coming, but I didn’t anticipate that 80% of my paintball artists would be kids! THAT was a great surprise. Claire and I had […]
Do you or your kids like to make movies that require dramatic doors? The teens at Phantom Moose Films made these great ones from nothing more than cardboard and spray paint. The video is of three different ways they can be used. The site has plenty of pictures from which to glean the processes they […]
There’s been a lot written about how humans anthropomorphize Pleo – but even dolphins are fascinated! This is an amazing video. Sirensgrotto says that Pleo reacts positively to the dolphins, too. Related: Hack the Pleo robotic dinosaur new dev forum and scripting now available BREAKING NEWS: MySkit – Performance editor for PLEO
The Science Museum of Minnesota’s Studio 3D has some great kid’s projects. I especially like the Marble Machine, which incorporates recycling and simple electronics and kinetics. Marble machine Related: The Way Things Go (one of our favorite DVDs!)
Fay Rhodes, LEGO Mindstorms NXT author, is holding a contest to find an alternate foot for a camel design. The wheel used as feet for my camel design came from the Education Resource set, but now LEGO has exchanged that wheel for another that lacks the TECHNIC pin holes–making it unusable for the foot. I […]
Brothers Kevin and Daryl Maas of Washington State are producing electricity from cow manure. We use a proven, commercialized technology called a manure digester to harvest methane gas from manure. We burn the methane to create electricity, while sending the processed manure back to the farmers as an organic fertilizer now free of pathogens and […]
Well, it won’t win any awards for high-fidelity (or even middle-fidelity), but this Instructable, which turns a Hallmark audio greeting card and a mini cereal box into an iPod speaker, might be a fun kids project. Make an iPod Speaker from a Hallmark Music Card
