I have to start a blog somewhere so I’ll start it with this explanation about how some of these ideas come to life. Fundamentally, lots of the concepts you see here either start out with a substantially different direction than […]
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Most experiments we do here start out with some known property, or material, or existing experiment, or whatever inspiration- rarely do I follow instructions and just duplicate a thing, but this is probably as close as I’ve come so far. […]
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I wasn’t really planning to post a swing page because lets face it- its borderline normal, but these are at least attached really high up with either that fun pneumatic blaster or the drone crossbow, and we’re getting a lot […]
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Every once in a blue moon we do something genuinely useful. Today was one of those days. In our defense we did use one of our other silly props in the process- this is the very same pneumatic launcher we […]
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This is a “curiosity project”- of course I wouldn’t complain if this plane got off the ground and was awesome, but so far it’s been an interesting vehicle capable of (involuntary?) hairpin turns on the ground, and that’s ok. For […]
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This was made pre-driveway pool. Basically a combination of a Rohrman’s tube, and our handy BBQ, with a car stereo system built in for good measure. In the Post-Delilah era it has rebranded to either the Itsy Bitsy BBQ, or […]
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Full disclosure- I bought this well before we had Delilah. So clearly, I think it’s just silly and absurd enough for the whole family. Delilah has some reservations but as you can see, she’s coming around. There’s really not that […]
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Well, it finally arrived! Delilah’s 3rd birthday- we had a great time with a formal ballroom affair. As usual, we had a lot going on- I got our disco ball going again, mom made S’more cupcakes, and at the 11th […]
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Ok this one’s a little technical, but it’s one of my favorite consequences of this project. Back in the days of olde, my usual routine was to either A) Get (or build) a legit datalogger (arduino or raspberry pi can […]
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In this post, I’m soliciting some ideas- we have a lot of fun playing with springs and D knows all her major types already. What I’d like to do is come up with a good demonstrator application. In most cases […]
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