johngineer posted this Cylon Snow Plow video and writes:
Get the Larson Scanner kit at the Evil Mad Scientist shop. :D
We’ve seen plenty of fuzzy dice for geeks, but the set we’ve always wanted is the “percentile” dice set– two 10-sided dice, one labeled 00-90 by tens, and one labeled 0-9. So: Here’s how to make your own. Continue reading Fuzzy percentile dice
While it may not be possible to make omelettes without breaking eggs, it turns out that you actually can get pretty close.
In what follows, we demonstrate some methods of making omelettes inside of eggshells. Perhaps a culinary equivalent of the ship in a bottle. Continue reading Making omelettes inside of eggshells
Our little open-source educational robotics kit, The Original Egg-Bot Kit, is (finally) back in stock at our store. :)
Gareth over at Make put up a sweet post called Giving thanks for the joy of making:
“We like the phrase “the joy of making” around here. It may sound a tad new agey, but most people who frequent this site and are involved with any type of hands-on activity certainly know what we’re talking about. I had a memorable example of this recently. I did a residency last month at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. One night, I did a BEAM robot workshop for one of my classes. I also had a couple of Evil Mad Scientist Labs Larson Scanner Kits with me. A group of four students excitedly grabbed one of the kits and hurried off to a corner to build it…”
Read how it turned out over at the Make blog.
From our forums comes this awesome “MeggyCade Jr” by Michale Molero:
“The MeggyCade is the first (and currently only) tabletop arcade game that includes a full-featured Meggy Jr RGB game system inside it, complete with authentic arcade controls. I built this thing from scratch in just under a month (with spurts of free time here and there).”
The video demo is at Youtube, and there’s a photo build log up here. Nice work!
As part of our continuing quest to experiment with every possible fabrication technology, we recently came across an opportunity to try fabric printing services while outfitting our new office with curtains.
Continue reading Minor Ikea hack: rollup curtains with custom printed fabric
One of our favorite longstanding projects– which we dropped a hint about some time ago –is converting old HP Nixie-tube counters into happily glowing Nixie clocks. Here’s how we do it.
Continue reading Making classic frequency counters into Nixie clocks
