You’re invited to our annual open house!
When: Thursday, November 19, 5 pm ? 9 pm
Where: Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
175 San Lazaro Ave, Suite 150
Sunnyvale, CA, 94086
You can check out our latest projects, play with the giant Digi-Comp II, meet Zener the cat, and share in food and conversation.
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.
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 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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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