Built with the LEGO NTX platform (plus PDA support processor), the Sundial Robot uses sensor data to calculate time of day the new/old-fashioned way – In operation, the robot rotates 360 degrees to calibrate the Compass Sensor. It then rotates in 5 degree increments, the light sensor is swept from vertical until the Touch Sensor […]
Fascinating tale about 2 students enlisted to see how hard (or easy) it was to make a nuke – How two students built an A-bomb… It’s one of the burning questions of the moment: how easy would it be for a country with no nuclear expertise to build an A-bomb? Forty years ago in a […]
It was made by Jam Handy Organization, a contract producer for the Chevrolet Division of General Motors. It was produced to be shown theatrically and also on TV, in the days when there were lots of empty time slots… you can see the video here.
Of all things Americans are… We are Makers. With our strengths and our minds and spirit. We gather, we form, we fashion. Makers and shapers and put-it-togethers.
Jenny @ CRAFT found this sculpture of a rotary phone made from paper tickets and scotch tape, tring tring!
Great collection of clips from TV science teacher Julius Sumner Miller “Why is it so?” Why is it so? – the ground-breaking TV series with the enigmatic Professor Julius Sumner Miller – ran on the ABC from 1963 to 1986. Professor Miller’s infectious enthusiasm for physics delighted, educated and entertained generations of Australians, most of […]
The 1920s satnav … and other weird and wonderful gadgets that never quite took off… via Land-o-links. CLOCKWORK TEASMADE – Patented in Birmingham in 1902, this brass and copper tea maker was the first Teasmade. The alarm clock triggered a switch and a match was then struck against moving sandpaper, lighting the spirit stove under […]
