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The Evil Mad Scientist STEAM T-shirt
Introducing the Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories STEAM T-shirt. Featuring high quality screen printing on 100% cotton tees from American Apparel.
Front side: Science & Technology & Engineering & Art & Mathematics. (Black ink)
Back side: The Evil Mad Scientist logo. (Red, brown, and black inks)
Shirt color: “New Silver,” a uniform light gray.
These are Great Shirts
Beautiful quality screen printing by Social Imprints of San Francisco (“Printing with Purpose”).
The shirts themselves are comfortable 100% cotton tees, made in the USA by American Apparel. (Mens Fine Jersey Short Sleeve T-Shirt and Womens Fine Jersey Short Sleeve Women’s T.)
Inspiration
The design of the front is an homage (like so many others) to the John Paul Ringo George shirt by Experimental Jetset.
Why Science & Technology & Engineering & Art & Mathematics?
It’s who we are, and it’s what we stand for.
Why not just STEM?
We, like many, many others believe that art is a critical component of good design, of good engineering, and of beneficial technology.
Get yours
The Evil Mad Scientist STEAM T-shirt is in stock and shipping now!
Field Trips: Tide Pools at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve
Fitzgerald Marine Reserve is a protected marine and intertidal park located at Moss Beach, California, about 40 minutes south of San Francisco, just north of Half Moon bay. It’s a spectacular place to visit at low tide, for some of the finest, most accessible tide pools in the region.
And as you’ll see, there’s definitely a lot to look at.
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Using the Eggbot for Pottery
We recently got the question,
Would the Ostrich Egg-bot allow me to “decorate” on a greenware pottery mug or bowl or similar shape?
The answer turns out to be yes. Garth, of Extreme Craft posted video of using his Original Eggbot for this. He first used a simple wood screw as a stylus.
He later used our diamond engraving tool, with great results. It is a use we hadn’t anticipated!
gEDA footprints for the OSHW Logo
Open Source advocate Russ Nelson wrote in to tell us about gEDA footprints (circuit board elements) for the Open Source Hardware Logo, available to browse and download at gedasymbols.org. Russ created these footprints to make a version of our earlier examples that would be easier to use.
gEDA is the open source (GPL licensed) Electronic Design Automation suite, which we use to design all of our circuit boards. gEDA now runs well on Mac, Windows, and Linux. If you’d like to try it out, you may want to begin with our own list of resources for getting started with gEDA, available here. And, if you produce open source hardware, you might find these footprints handy.
Lightning Necklace
Erin “RobotGrrl” recently posted about a wearables project:
Here was a quick project that I created in time for C2MTL. It’s a simple, blinky, 3D printed, wearable electronic. We wanted to wear something that would be interesting and a conversation starter.
She used a LOL Shield on top of a Diavolino in a 3D printed case with a translucent lightning bolt. It was a success:
I wonder if all wearable electronic projects are like this- if people come up to you just because it’s something different and want to know more. Perhaps more world-wide friendliness & curiosity could be an unexpected result from wearable electronics! So, it worked and we were able to get people to talk to us. I extremely recommend this to other shy/not-exactly-social people.
Basics: Up Close and Personal with Solder Paste
Solder paste is the glue that holds together modern consumer electronics, binding surface mount electronic components to circuit boards and providing electrical and thermal connections in the process. But have you ever really looked at it?
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Profiled on the EDN Workbench and Atmel Blogs
Our friend Paul Rako posted a nice write-up about us on both the Atmel blog and EDN Workbench blog, filled with pictures he took at our last open house.
Evil Mad Science does not re-sell cheap imported junk. They design, test, and package their kits right here in Silicon Valley. Here are just a few of the kits Evil Mad Science sells. They all have great style, panache and entertainment value.
You can see read the rest of his post and check out his pictures either at EDN or Atmel. Thanks, Paul!
Meteor Alert for North America Tonight
From spaceweather.com:
METEOR ALERT: Sky watchers in North America might see an outburst of meteors during the early hours of June 11th when Earth passes through a stream of cometary debris last seen in 1930. Forecasters Peter Jenniskens (SETI Institute) and Esko Lyytinen (Helsinki, Finland) predict the return of the gamma Delphinid meteor shower this Tuesday morning around 08:30 UT (04:30 am EDT). The shower is expected to last no more than about 30 minutes with an unknown number of bright, fast meteors.
The 2013 Open Hardware Summit: Tickets Now Available
Tickets to attend the 2013 Open Hardware Summit are now available for purchase.
The Summit takes place on September 6 at MIT. The call for papers and the call for sponsors are both still open as well.
Photo credit: Open Hardware Summit on Flickr.
