- Video: How Moroccan Zellij tile mosaics are made.
- avrgirl-arduino: Upload code to Arduino boards with NodeJS.
- Plaid fruit leather.
- A maglev toy train – fine, fast, and floating
- MeowCAD: Open source, online EDA tool for designing circuit boards
- Doc Pop’s Glitch Socks.
- Glitch Architecture (via Rusty Blazenhoff)
- Glitch Furniture (via Doc Pop)
- Mechanical Hummingbird (via @Grathio) More info here.
- Photos from inside an abandoned Soviet Buran space shuttle hanger. [Translated link via Google.] More about Buran here.
- Radio astronomy and Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover: Part 1 (the origin story) and Part 2 (the science story).
- EMV (“Chip and pin”) smart cards: Not as secure as one might hope.
- An Interview with Fran Blanche of Frantone Electronics.
- A new species of Galapagos Tortoise has been discovered.
- CatsISUOTTATFO: Videos of cats inadvertently swatting unknown objects towards themselves and then freaking out (Reddit).
- Masterlist: A curated gallery of McMaster-Carr products (Via Core77).
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.
Digi-Comp II replica in Minecraft
Picards_Flute posted about recreating the Digi-Comp II in Minecraft:
I have replaced the rolling balls with 1 tick redstone pulses, and the switches with T flip-flops. It operates exactly like the original.
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.
Lady Ada Lovelace Day 2015
For Lady Ada Lovelace Day this year, I want to celebrate the participation of so many unsung women in technical endeavors of all kinds.
Ada Lovelace Day is an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
I love that Lady Ada Day gives the opportunity to make women more visible. I am paying homage with some images from Maker Faires this year of girls and women of all ages participating in and helping to guide hands-on activities. Here’s to the many women who aren’t as celebrated but are still involved and making things better for all of us!
Psychedelic Flame Soldering Kit
Last year, we released our Flickery Flame Soldering Kits with six candle-flicker LEDs in red and yellow or white and warm white, to give a fun and semi-realistic flame effect. Now we’re releasing a new Psychedelic Flame Soldering Kit with six blinky-fading-flashy RGB LEDs.
Together the auto-changing LEDs make this a bright, colorful, and kinetic light show. Perfect for holiday decorations (psychedelic Jack O’Lanterns, anyone?), luminarias, scale models, stage props, and parties.
These kits are fun, low-cost, self-contained, and easy soldering kits, which will be right at home both as stocking stuffers and as bite-size first projects for soldering workshops.
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.
From the Archives: Eggbotting for Halloween
One of our favorite holidays is fast approaching, so it’s the perfect time to look back at Eggbotting for Halloween— our tips and tricks for plotting on pumpkins with an Eggbot.
As seen in the JameCo Newsletter
We’ve been shopping at JameCo since long before we started Evil Mad Scientist, and were tickled when they started carrying our kits. This month, they featured us in their newsletter.
…all about taking creativity to the next level, bridging the gap between art and technology, supporting education, and inspiring new minds to transform themselves…
World Maker Faire 2015
We had a great time at the 2015 World Maker Faire. The Great Hall has reopened after renovations.
Gamelatron was set up on the patio outside the hall and formed a meditative place of respite from the high energy of the rest of the faire.
Moat Boat Paddle Battle was hugely popular with their newly built raceway.
There were beautiful interactive flexible robot arms.
The Terrace on the Park formed a fabulous backdrop for the Power Racing Series.
We caught up with Limor from Adafruit while learning about wearables for pets from Blythe of 4 Paws Wearables.
We were completely wowed by the VEC9 vector arcade game. Every aspect of it showed obsessive attention to detail, and the tank controller felt amazing.
This cookiebot was made with the Fizzbit, a USB chargeable vibrobot platform by The Crafty Robot.
The rocket powered go cart was one of the more impressively dangerous projects. There were many more wonders to see, and you can see our full set of pictures from the event in the flickr album.
