And we’re back with our eighth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Simon suggests assembling your own DIY Retro kids tool sets: The earliest memory of tinkering I have is taking apart an old telephone with a butter knife when I […]
Bill Hammack is one part Mr. Wizard and one part James Burke. He’s a professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his alter ego Engineer Guy has made over 300 public radio spots emphasizing the creative aspects of science and engineering. In this three minute video, Bill tears apart a photocopier and explains, with great wit and wisdom, how it works. Ten more videos are available at his site. I especially like the one about tantalum. [via Boing Boing]
And we’re back with our seventh installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. There was a lively debate about whether kids have a place in hackerspaces. The consensus seemed to be that kids would certainly benefit from the experience, if the group […]
More beautiful CC-licensed element photography from Wikipedia user alchemist-hp. Since I last wrote about his work, alchemist-hp has updated his (German) Wikipedia page with a clickable periodic table chronicling his ongoing quest to photograph each of the 94 naturally-occurring chemical elements. Right now he’s at 36.
And we’re back with our sixth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Nate imagines what it would be like if the Star Wars characters were making Death Star cookies: Hee hee…I’m having all of these wonderful images of Vader, Tarkin, and […]
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw: Drilled hole photo by ogk2009, TinyG Bot Mini CNC Mill by rileyporter, Blood Sponge Bag by eqqman, and Donut Machine Demonstration (AKA Saskatoon) by Steven Laurie.
And we’re back with our fifth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. vt-pete sends his regards to the creator of the 30MPH electric mountain bike: “Unfortunately, Jennifer has already wrecked the bike and broken her elbow,” — ha! Get well soon, […]
