MIT Swapfest – April 15, 2007
MIT Radio Society’s Swapfest is tomorrow, April 15, 2007 in the Albany Street Garage. Print the flyer for a discount on admission! Thanks Tom in B-Bay! – Link.
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Silicon Valley electronics fleamarket 04/14/07 (photos)
Garrett writes – I went to the Silicon Valley Electronics Fleamarket after seeing it mentioned on Makezine.com. It was worth the 50 mile drive, lots of great stuff there. I took some photos and put them on Flickr. I’ll be going to the Fleamarket every time they have it! Next one is on May 12th. […]
Art bots!
The art bots are in Philly @ the The Esther M. Klein Art Gallery (thanks Jim!) – Robots, once only limited to the realm of imagination, now permeate our daily lives, used widely for exploration of sea and space, labor and industry, medicine, military and police. But what happens when a few renegade artists, scientists […]
The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin (book review)
Justin McHenry @ Citizen Scientist reviewed The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin And the Pursuit of Genius – looks like a great book to check out, he writes – I’ve always been a Benjamin Franklin fan, but I guess I’ve always admired the caricature of Franklin: from the rags-to-riches Poor Richard writing witty sayings in […]
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre – A Museum of Automata (mechanical sculpture)
Chris writes – I’ve been a regular visitor to the Kinetica Museum in London since it’s opening. One of the things I always really liked were the automata donation boxes. For this reason I attended the Cabaret Mechnical Theatre workshop that gave an insight into the processes using cardboard prototyping (some photos). Last night was […]
The chemical store
Looking for copper sulfate? Or how about polyvinyl alcohol? The chemical store is the place for the home chemist and hobbyist – Link. Related: The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments – 1960 – Link. HOW TO – Set up your own chemistry lab – Link.
Places to take your kids
GeekDad has some places to your kids, all in the sciency/MAKE spirit too! Places to go with your kids Google MyMap by Scott Nagle – [via] Link. Related: MAKE shops – Link. Cool MAKE places – Link. MAKE playlist – Link.
