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Community Spotlight – Matt Stultz, Community Organizer, 3D Printing Guru, 3D...
Interview: Matt Stultz, Community Organizer, 3D Printing Guru, 3D Materials ExperimenterQ: Hi! Who are you, and what do you do?Howdy, my name is Matt Stultz and I’m a community organizer, 3D printing...
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Urban Greenprint Aims to Mitigate Runoff with Evaporation
This concept is great! From Biomimcry.org:The current focus of the Urban Greenprint is to generate building design techniques and use of materials that take cues from our local natural ecosystems,...
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This material “self-heals” after being shot with a bullet (video)
Via engadget.NASA-funded research has created a material that could self-heal in seconds. Two layers of solid polymer sandwich a gel that with an ingredient that solidifies on contact with air (i.e....
View ArticleWhy Concrete Does Not Dry Out
Fun, informative video from MinutePhysics.Concrete doesn’t dry – it sets!
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Mini Materials, A Line of Construction Material Miniatures you Didn’t Know...
Check out Mini Materials – a line of miniatures made from real life construction materials. Not only do the products look super cute, we imagine they are a real treat to build with as well as a...
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DuoSkin: Functional, stylish on-skin user interfaces #WearableWednesday
MIT Media Lab in collaboration with Microsoft Research have created DuoSkin – an on-skin user interface.DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that...
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Flexible and Colorful Electronic Paper Promises a New Look for E-books
Exciting development for all E-book connoisseurs from IEEE Spectrum.Plasmonic nanostructures leverage the oscillations in the density of electrons that are generated when photons hit a metal surface....
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How the rubber glove was invented #MakerEducation
Sometimes the least glamorous inventions have the best origin stories! Learn more with this video from TED-Ed.It’s hard to imagine a modern hospital being able to function without rubber gloves — but...
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This supercar is made almost entirely from wood
Joe Harmon Design built this incredible supercar made almost entirely from wood!Wood is our only naturally renewable building material; it takes an extraordinarily small amount of energy to produce and...
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How Conservators Remove Tape From 19th-Century Art
Useful post from The Atlantic.Sticky tape was first invented in the mid-19th century, and it’s been making conservators’ lives hell ever since. “Tape is the bane of the conservator’s existence,” says...
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Nasa Funahara Uses Japanese Masking Tape to Recreate Famous Paintings
Who knew masking tape could be so beautiful?Nice write-up from designboom.funahara uses a masking tape made from washi, a traditional japanese paper that comes in all sorts of colors, patterns and...
View ArticleThe Strange Physics Behind the Smell of Rubber Bands
SciShow has the scoop on the mysterious smell of rubber bands.If you’ve spent any time trying to explode a pumpkin with rubber bands you know that they have a distinct smell to them when stretched, and...
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Engineers demonstrate metamaterials that can solve equations #Engineering...
Via Phys.org – University of Pennsylvania Engineers have designed a metamaterial device that can solve integral equations. The device works by encoding parameters into the properties of an incoming...
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The NASA fastener design manual #Space #Wearables #Fashion @NASA
How does one make sure things stay together in flight? NASA has given this some thought. From their intro to NASA Reference Publication 1228 (1990) Fastener Design Manual by Richard Barrett:To the...
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NEW PRODUCTS – Thermochromic Pigments in Various Colors
NEW PRODUCTS – Thermochromic Pigments in Various ColorsWe love playing with obscure materials that have a creepy-cool or magical quality. Sure, there’s invisible ink, but have you ever used heat to...
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NEW PRODUCT – EVA Foam Pack in Rainbow Colors – 2mm thick – 10 sheets
NEW PRODUCT – EVA Foam Pack in Rainbow Colors – 2mm thick – 10 sheetsEVA foam is one of the best and easiest go-to materials for constructing costumes and props. It’s light, inexpensive, versatile, and...
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NEW PRODUCT – Shimmering Snowflake Glitter – 8mm
NEW PRODUCT – Shimmering Snowflake Glitter – 8mmThese iridescent silver-bluish-purple sequins can be used for a variety of maker projects for some shimmery wintery glitz. Also perfect as snowflake...
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Bricks Alive! Scientists Create Living Concrete #MakerEducation
Fun piece in The New York Times, which covers a recent discovery from a team of scientists at the University of Colorado, Boulder.For centuries, builders have been making concrete roughly the same way:...
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Proteus: the world’s first manufactured non-cuttable material #Materials @nwtls
Durham University UK and the Fraunhofer Institute claim they’ve come up with the world’s first manufactured non-cuttable material, just 15 percent the density of steel, which they say could make for...
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