RJS sent in these pictures from Halloween this year after making our Larson Scanner kit in its Kraftwerk Tie incarnation.
Thanks for sharing the pictures, you both look awesome!
Category Archives: Art
From the archives: Sweet or Savory Specimen Jars
From the archives comes one of our favorite food projects: Halloween Cuisine: Sweet or Savory Specimen Jars.
What good is a specimen jar if you can’t serve it at dinner? The contents of the jars should be genuinely edible, made out of real food. Plastic snakes and spiders are right out.
More Halloween edibles can be found in the food category of our Halloween Project Archive.
Halloween Project Archives
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 … we’ve organized dozens of our Halloween projects into categories: costumes, pumpkins, decor and food.
Head over to the Halloween Project Archives for the full list of projects.
The collectivity project
While in NY last month, we stumbled on The collectivity project while walking along the beautiful High Line park.
This exhibit by artist Olafur Eliasson invites the public “to build their vision of a future city” with three tons of white Lego bricks. It was fun to see people building bridges between tables of buildings, rebuilding architectural features, adding words and symbols.
Today (October 12) is the last day of the project on the High Line.
Clocks at Maker Faire NY
The first day of Maker Faire New York was great fun. We’ve found a several great clock projects so far, including this one, featuring image processing running on a Raspberry Pi.
Our friends at NYC Resistor brought a wonderful papercraft seven segment display clock.
At the end of the day, while talking with Tom and Massimo from Arduino, we ran into another maker with a clock project. Welcome to the maker community, Ahmed!
Don’t Fear Clocks
We’re bringing a stack of our Don’t Fear Art bumper stickers with us to Maker Faire New York this weekend to give to all the awesome DIY clock projects we find there. If you see us (@oskay and @1lenore), hit us up for a sticker!
Tinkering Tiaras
The Tinkering Studio at the Exploratorium has a great post on making copper crowns with LEDs as a soldering practice project.
The circuit diagrams are wonderful, evoking possible shapes of the crown.
Evil Mad Engineers
Every month or two since 2009, someone has sent me a copy of a particular comic from the webcomic Cowbirds in Love. Here is today’s example, from @benk_at_work on twitter:
Sigh.
There is, of course, only one appropriate way to respond in a situation like this: with another comic.
Back in 2011, I wrote an era-appropriate semi-autobiographical rage comic, that I could use as a standard response when people sent me that comic.
Joking aside, we really do spend a lot of our time engineering— and many of our friends and colleagues are bona fide engineers. On the other hand, I love to cook, but that doesn’t make me a chef either.
Lunch bags with the WaterColorBot
Spencer posted on our facebook page:
Thought you might enjoy this photo showing the WaterColorBot in action while inking some custom “brown bag lunches” for summer camp.
Final results…
And here is another. Fun project!
They look great— thanks for sharing them with us!
Lemon Plum Jam
The plums on our tree ripened all at once this year! Making this sweet and tart Lemon Plum Jam took care of some of the excess fruit in a tasty way.
Ingredients:
- 4 cups plum pieces (pits removed, skin still on)
- 2 whole lemons—large meyers if you can get them—cut into pieces (seeds removed, peel still on)
- Juice of 2 more lemons
- 1/2 cup water
- 4 cups sugar
Heat the plum and lemon pieces, lemon juice and water in a pot on medium, stirring occasionally. After about 15-20 minutes, the fruit should be softening. Macerate the fruit in the pot—a potato masher works well for this. Add the sugar. Stir regularly and cook to the desired consistency. To test consistency, put a spoonful on a plate in the fridge. If it’s too runny after cooling for a few minutes, keep simmering and test again after a few minutes.
Makes about 2-3 pints.
If you want to can it for longer storage, Ball has a nice introduction to canning (pdf), and additional resources on their website.
Other fruit preserves from the Play with your food archives:
