Monthly Archives: July 2010

Friday: gateway to tinkering with stuff

It’s Friday! And it was payday at Nameless Employer, which means a small group of us go for Thai food at lunch.

Which has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with what I did when I got home after…

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Checking the Tweets…

And now a few tweets from our fearless leader:

My little pal Bor and his dad were fooling around with a battery-powered flashlight and created this: http://flic.kr/p/8nCDjF #fun

Five…

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The Summer of Danger(ous) Things, continued

My predecessor as guest blogger, Deb Nies, has published Part IX of her and her tween’s exploration of Fifty Dangerous Things (you should let your children do) on Examiner.com.

Go, read about using a knife…

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Sometimes, you just need to go down to the shop.

The life of a working engineer seems to have an awful lot of desk time involved. Which can be entertaining when you’re actively designing stuff — a reasonably powerful computer and modern CAD software is a great…

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Great news for Fifty Dangerous Things!

Straight from the man himself’s Twitter feed:

@gever It’s official! @juliecracker and I have just signed a book deal with Penguin/NAL (for #50DT) – woo hoo! Thanks Jeff! (our agent)

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Keeping the sense of wonder… and why that’s good.

We’re going to start off this one with a great piece of video: Adam Savage’s TED talk about making his own dodo bird skeleton out of Sculpey and his obsession with making a dead-nuts-accurate copy

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On the nature of feedback

Everyone wants to get a little attaboy/attagirl for their efforts every now and then. Some little acknowledgement from the boss/parent/spouse/kid that “hey, what you did there was pretty cool”.

But what if what you do, while certainly…

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Hey, it’s Guest Blogger #2!

Mellow greetings, fellow travelers.

Okay, so I’m not really a terribly mellow person. I’m Jim Crider, mechanical engineer, car guy, and genetically-engineered tinkerer. Some may know my nom de net AutoJim from various

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Odds and Ends

Mmm, popcorn in milk.

It’s about the end of my guest run here, and it’s time to wrap things up for the next guest correspondent.

I’ve been following the fun over at Tinkering School through the daily…

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Summer dangers: Dress the kids in bubblewrap?

I received an email from Parenting.com yesterday with the huge headline, “11 SUMMER DANGERS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM!” Well, course, I just had to find out immediately what was included in  the list of…

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