The Maker Shed LED Atmospheric Analyzer Kit is now available in the Maker Shed. Use it to create a photometer, a device that measures how much blue, green, and red...
Posted by Eric Weinhoffer | Wednesday December 19th, 2012 4:00 PM
Categories: General, Arduino, Science | 5 Comments
This bot visualizes earthquakes as splotches of paint, squirting paint color coded to the strength of each quake. Quakescape is a 3D fabricator that works by taking earthquake data from...
Posted by John Baichtal | Monday December 10th, 2012 3:30 PM
Categories: Science, Art & Design | 3 Comments
With November behind us, we're wrapping up our 2012 Year of Materials theme, this month, with a focus on glass. Glass, in the broadest sense of the term, does not...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday December 3rd, 2012 6:30 AM
Categories: Science | 7 Comments
Oakland’s AMT hackerspace spent last Sunday teaching kids about biospheres! Yesterday marked the inaugural Open Lab for our new adventure: Hacker Scouts. We had an amazing turnout with about 40...
Posted by John Baichtal | Wednesday September 5th, 2012 12:30 PM
Categories: Hackerspaces, Science | No Comments
Want to get kids interested in science? Well, DIY Lava Flows are one extreme way to go about it. Earth Magazine reports on the Syracuse University Lava Project.
Posted by David Lang | Tuesday August 21st, 2012 2:30 PM
Categories: Science | 11 Comments
Metallography is a method of materials analysis used to characterize the microscopic structure of a metal sample. Generally, the process involves cutting a sample from some object of interest, polishing...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday August 16th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Science | 2 Comments
As promised, here's a tasting menu featuring some of my favorite metallurgical content from our archives arranged, as usual, in mysteriously-appealing (and entirely arbitrary) top-ten format. Narrowing it down to...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday August 14th, 2012 8:21 PM
Categories: Science, Workshop | No Comments
Well, what's left of August is Metals Month, I should say. A broad subject, to be sure, and with only a couple of weeks to explore it, I want to...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday August 13th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: General, Science | 2 Comments
Brian Rawlings wrote in to share an experiment he’s working on with his 9-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son: using Cheetos as a hydroponic medium. Hydro-priming is the process of soaking...
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday August 7th, 2012 11:00 AM
Categories: Science | 6 Comments
Four times a year, when our planet is in the appropriate alignment with the sun, the shadow this sundial casts onto the ground spells out either "solstice" or "equinoxe."
Posted by Matt Richardson | Saturday June 30th, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Science | No Comments
In case you haven't heard the name before, Spoonflower is a print-on-demand custom fabric service that can indelibly print your images on a roll of fabric up to 58" wide....
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday June 29th, 2012 6:16 AM
Categories: Craft, Home, Science | No Comments
Here is the fifth video in Engineer Guy Series #4. The element of the week is cesium, as in "cesium fountain atomic clock." Watching it, my jaw was on the...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday June 13th, 2012 6:29 AM
Categories: Education, Science | 10 Comments
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