I was out to dinner the other night with O’Reilly/MAKE’s Brian Jepson, his wife Joan, and our new Make: Online author Kipp Bradford. We were talking about the awesome Thames & Kosmos science and tech kits we carry in the Maker Shed. The conversation inevitably turned to chemistry kits of yore, the beloved kits of […]
From National Geographic: Ancient people in what is now South Africa whipped up a glue of powdered red ochre and acacia-tree gum to keep their tools (above, a replicated tool with adhesive made by scientists) intact, a May 2009 study says. Stone Age Superglue Found — Hints at Unknown Smarts?
Meara O’Reilly, who works on magazine projects in MAKE Labs, is also a talented sound and visual artist. She’s just completed a short video, with her friend Lisa Foti-Straus, of the Chladni music she’s been working on. She built her Chladni (CLOD-knee) plate after working on the Chladni article in MAKE, Volume 16. She’s been […]
Bruce Damer, The EvoGrid, Dorkbot-SF, 2009-04-08 from pronoiac on Vimeo. Here are a couple of talks from recent Dorkbot SF meetings. The first one is MAKE contributing author Dave Matthews, talking about “software as the new hardware.” His talk his entertaining and thought-provoking as always. The second talk is of Bruce Damer, speaking about meteors, […]
Another day, another couple of cool, wacky vids from Fatman and Circuit Girl. In the first vid, Jerri has George laughing his butt off over her ridiculous flipdown clock wrist watch. Tres chic, it ain’t! In the second video, Jeri explains EDM, electrical discharge machining, a technique that came up recently on Make: Talk. She […]
As a little kid, maybe five or six, one of my first remembered moments of heightened mechanical curiosity was over a Dippy Bird that somebody gave us. I have this very vivid memory of being utterly fascinated by it and wondering how it worked. The answer has been decades in coming. Here, MAKE Contributing Editor […]
Here are a couple more excerpts from The Fat Man and Circuit Girl show. In the first clip, Jeri converts an optical flatbed scanner so that it rotates around an object (like her FACE!) and scans inward. In the second, she makes a cloud chamber with a toy tank (a tank in a tank) to […]
