Last week I visited the Exploratorium with some friends, and we saw this remarkable drinking fountain. The exhibit cleverly produces a little bit of introspective psychological trickery: It notes that the water is clean, and that the toilet has never been used, but asks why you might hesitate to drink from it? Funny how our brains work sometimes.
Drinking aside, the exhibit reminds me in particular of one other famous fountain.
Continue reading Duchamp redux
Make a trebuchet (mostly) out of lego, capable of launching small objects like acorns or minature marshmallows over thirty feet. It’s a geeky ABS cousin to the PVC Marshmallow shooter, and you can build one yourself.
Continue reading Build a Lego Trebuchet
We’ve had some complaints lately about Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories not being sufficiently evil. (Too many projects that are “safe” and “legal.” Blah blah blah.)
Today we’re going to fix that by helping you to turn your New Year’s Champagne into a DEADLY weapon!!!!
(Just in case you were wondering: Yes, four exclamation marks are required.)
Continue reading Evil new year: Turn your Champagne into a DEADLY weapon!!!!
The “business end” of a Stegosaur’s tail has a name. Do you know what it is?
Apparently, it’s called a Thagomizer.
Image source: Wikipedia (Image:Stego-marsh-1896-US_geological_survey.jpg).
Competition Rita Stacking is a relatively new sport, and a recent favorite at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. Read on for the rules.
Continue reading Play with your food: Competition Rita Stacking
Milton Lau and his students in Hawaii built this (non-baker’s) dozen set of holiday ornament gingerbread readerboard people. These were built using the
holiday electronics kits.
This photo is by Milton Lau and is used with his kind permission. Thanks!
Here’s something fantastic you can do when you get bored at that holiday party: Construct complex fractals out of light using a few shiny Christmas tree ornaments. Who says the holidays aren’t exciting?
Continue reading Christmas Chaos
If you’re planning to get some of our holiday electronics kits in time for Christmas, please note that the remaining amount of time is decreasing at a rate of one second per second. Orders placed today (Tues. 12/19 until midnight) will ship via priority mail on Wednesday, and will (probably!) arrive by Saturday. Express mail shipping is also available; have your order in by Thursday (through midnight) for Saturday delivery.
Above, a box full of kits sits in the hallway just before a trip to the post office.
We’ve started a flickr group called the “Evil Mad Science Auxiliary,” it’s located at http://www.flickr.com/groups/evilmadscience/.
The purpose of this group is to provide a place to show off your pictures of things that are (at least marginally) related to projects on our blog. Did you build a cylon-o-lantern? Some interesting Lego creations? Some LED Holiday decorations or build one of our kits? Post it in the group and let us see!
The action shot above, by fdecomite on flickr, shows some tasty Escher cookies.
The holiday electronics project kits are now shipping (Woo-hoo!)
