Smoke Test
Josh is testing his work on his control board for his 1 pound battle bot Would you believe it was a tiny little capacitor on the Arduino that popped?
Non-Newtonian fluids
It helps to know what a Newtonian fluid is before you start thinking about non-Newtonian fluids. Conveniently, just about every fluid you can think of is Newtonian. When you push…
LED TREE
After seeing a small artistic tree made with polished stones, I was inspired to create one with LED as a nightlight for my daughter. The trunk and branches are made…
Prosthetic LIghts
While working with a prosthetist (someone that designs, creates and fits artificial limbs) to record and analyze the behavior and performance of of amputees wearing prosthetics, we discovered that we…
Flip Flop
The basic flip-flop circuit or astable multivibrator (try telling a bunch of middle school kids that’s the name of this thing). This version was built after the Feltronics Flip Flop,…
Maker Camp at Discovery Place
Since it started in 2012, over a million campers connected through Maker Camp and shared their experiences with other campers in the Maker Camp community. Maker Camp is a great…
Windmills
While we were living in The Netherlands we saw a lot of windmills. They have a lot more “new” windmills than “old”, but it’s the old ones that are so…
