Here is a photograph of a Clone Trooper pushing a gun and a Coke in a stroller at the Maker Faire. Really not much I can add to it at this point. Cool Clothes and Styles of Maker Faire...

To recap, I have enough funding to start MindGear, but not quite enough to do the full lab pictured here. I'll look at my financial options and at doing a crowdsourcing campaign soon. My attempt to economize by doing work I could farm out to others (website design, hiring efforts) ...

Here's a simple DIY project to build "stilts". You can do this for or with your child - pretty straight forward, check it out: Materials Needed: * two 2x2x8' timber beams (e.g. pine) * one 2x4x 12" piece of wood (e.g. pine) * two 3/8" x 4" Hex Head Bo...

That was this week's theme as I rush around trying to start a business from scratch. And the marketers have told me to not forget the kids. Kids may not have most of the money in our economy, but pretty much all of what they have is disposable. And a ...

Charles Guan, MIT Student and self professed deranged engineer hacker ninja, has been doing some interesting work since he arrived at MIT. One of his recent projects is a four wheel direct drive, or Chibikart. His total time from CAD to completion was an amazing three weeks. This includes hand ...

A friend of mine introduced me to gantter.com for one of my day job projects. If you're not familiar with Gantt charts or need a free way to build one I suggest you check them out. Briefly, a Gantt chart lets you build a complete set of tasks, the dependencies ...

Here's a great game you can play with young children aged 18 months and up. It's your own version of 10 pin bowling except that you don't need pins or a bowling alley - all you need is a ball (any ball) and your little one's favorite toys (whatever the...

Denis Hennessy recently encountered a problem we've all faced: he needed some AAs for a battery-eating gizmo, and he was overwhelmed by the choices available. Ignoring the shiny packaging and its marketing jargon, the core question was which brand offered the best bang-for-the-buck?

When one of my favorite publishers No-Starch Press offered me a review copy of Snip,Burn,Solder,Shred Seriously Geeky Stuff To Make With Your Kids I was thrilled.

You know, I spent yesterday wondering about the mechanics of flashmobs, and how maybe a little less reality-TV-stagier might be better, like when Improv Anywhere showed up and freaked that one band out by singing along to all their...