Science in Your Cereal Bowl!
These famous cereal premiums were tiny — but packed with mighty scientific principles!
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Balsa Dreams
Paul K. Guillow’s model airplanes have been buzzing over parks since 1926.
Gears of War Lego Hack
Lego builder Guy Himber needed to play the piano 2,000 times in GoW3 to earn an award. However, that didn’t sound like much fun so he created a Lego robot to do it for him. This hits the ‘X’ button at about 67 times per minute, though I think only about 1/2 of them actually […]
Tabletop Gaming — Modeling Tips and Tricks
In the early aughts, I ran a popular and well-regarded tabletop wargame modeling and converting site called 40K Konversions. It was dedicated to all forms of modeling related to the Warhammer 40,000 universe. I went through my articles from the site and have put together some of the best tips and tricks that I published.
HoloDesk: More Augmented Reality Pr0n
Microsoft Research is up to their usual cleverness: HoloDesk is a novel interactive system combining an optical see through display and Kinect camera to create the illusion that users are directly interacting with 3D graphics. A virtual image of a 3D scene is rendered through a half silvered mirror and spatially aligned with the real-world […]
Access Android Sensors from a Scratch Program
Users of the Scratch visual programming language can now add an Android handset to their arsenal of plug and play tools. Using the Scratch Sensor app on your handset will get you access to the accelerometer and compass data over the Scratch networking protocol, turning the device into a readily available data acquisition module.
Skill Builder: Figure Sculpting Tutorials
Julian Khor, a Senior Lead Designer at Ubisoft Singapore, has a series of inspiring videos (99 in all) on sculpting superheroes, action figures, and modeling the human form in general (virtual 3D modeling tuts, too). The above video is part one of a 35-part series on sculpting a Hulk-y “action figure.”
