Here’s some easy to make festive holiday candy that doesn’t taste anything like candy-canes, fruitcake, gingerbread or eggnog.
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Tinker and Drinker at the Tech Museum
We’ll be at The Tech Museum in San Jose for their After Hours Tinker and Drinker event, Wednesday, December 7, from 6 pm to 11 pm. Tickets are available online for guests ages 21+.
We’re bringing along Drink Making Unit 2.0, one of our favorite combinations of tinkering and drinking. It will be serving non-alcoholic drinks during the event. Hope to see you there!
Fall Open House
Winter Holiday Projects from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
The Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories Holiday Project Archive!
We’ve rounded up our projects from holidays past and present and will add future projects to this archive each year. You can start with decorations or jump straight to food projects. We’re also including our cookie posts for your geeky holiday cookie making fun.
Decorations:
Holiday Edge-Lit Cards
Decorating Ornaments with the Eggbot
EggBot holiday project roundup
LED Micro-Readerboard, version 2.0
Deck the halls with fine components
Vector Snowflake Application: open-source snowflake generator
Evil new year: Turn your Champagne into a DEADLY weapon!!!!
Easy high-power LED blinking circuit
Food:
Spangled Star Biscuits
Five Tricks for Thanksgiving Leftovers
Now that’s an Apple Pie!
Indian-style Cranberry Chutney
Pumpkin Spice Truffles
A Chocolate Debian
Fractal Snowflake Cupcakes
Cookies:
Fractal Cookies
Atomic Cookies
Asteroids Cookies
Ice Cream Gyoza
Circuitry Snacks
Edible Googly Eyes
Indian-style Cranberry Chutney
Or, How to make Indian-spiced cranberry sauce.
With Thanksgiving fast approaching, it’s the time of the year when fresh cranberries are in the stores, and it’s also the time of the year when we are looking for unusual flavor combinations for traditional ingredients. In that spirit, here’s a fantastic sweet, spicy and savory Indian-style cranberry chutney modeled after our favorite tamarind chutney recipe from the excellent Indian cookbook, Indian Home Cooking. Cranberries are tart like tamarind, so they work well here and bring a distinct new flavor to a familiar sauce.
Evil Mad Science Kits on Make: Live!
The most recent episode of Make: Live was a special episode on kits to celebrate the upcoming release of the Make: Special Issue, The Ultimate Kit Guide. Our very own Octolively and Meggy Jr RGB kits were both featured on the show. The electronic kits clip is embedded above, or you can watch the full video and the rest of the clips, including siege & ballistic kits and crafty kits on the Ultimate Kit Episode post over at Make.
ComBots Cup VI
This weekend is ComBots Cup VI at the San Mateo Expo center. This event is eloquently described over at Suicide Bots: “Dozens of robots makers from all over the globe have cast common sense to the wind and scattered the contents of their bank accounts in sacrifice to The Robot Gods in order to bring you one amazing weekend of total mechanical ridiculousness in the form of ear-searing, heart-stopping, insurance-adjuster-apoplexy-causing Robot Combat!”
The event runs Saturday and Sunday from 2 pm to 7 pm and advance tickets are available here.
We’ll be running a few robots of our own (vs. eggs and pumpkins–not an entirely fair fight) and will be bringing robots and robot accessories for your last minute Halloween decorating needs. Hope to see you there!
Cocktail Robotics in Portland
We’ll be there with a couple of other bay area barbots, Chassis and Cosmobot. We’re happy to be helping to propagate the impending robot uprising through the human fondness for alcoholic beverages.
East Bay Mini Maker Faire
We’re headed to the East Bay Mini Maker Faire this Sunday, October 16th at the Park Day School in Oakland. And we have a discount code for you! Enter EGGBOT to get 15% off tickets purchased online. We had a great time last year, and are excited to be taking the Eggbot back for more fun. We’re also bringing along the Ostrich Eggbot, which can fit even larger pumpkins. The lineup of makers for the event looks great, and the schedule includes an all-star cast of presenters, lots of workshops, and three music stages. Hope to see you there!
Photo by smerlo03 on flickr under cc-by-nc license.
Halloween Projects from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
The Great Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories Halloween Project Archive!
Halloween is one of our favorite holidays, and our collection of Halloween projects continues to grow. Every fall we update it to include our latest projects for the season. In the list that follows, we’ve organized dozens of our Halloween projects into categories: costumes, pumpkins, decor and food.
Last updated: 10/2019.
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