Monday, May 18, 2009

Geek Dad Guest Blogging

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For the next two weeks I have the honor of guest blogging on Wired's Geekdad blog (www.geekdad.com) It's important to nurture the ne...
Friday, May 15, 2009

Exploring the trans-Saharan Gold Trade

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My archeologist son Andy leaves today on an expedition to a remote part of Ghana, on Africa's western coast. It's seems like it'...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

The Marvelous Work of Norman Saunders

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I met illustrator Zina Saunders at the GEL conference in New York City last week. Wildly creative and fairly edgy, she works have been in a ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

100 Geeks You Should Be Following

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GeekDad.com is the parenting blog at Wired.com . Basically it is a group geeks who have reproduced biologically and now blog their experien...
Sunday, May 03, 2009

New York: I am a Camera

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I flew home from New York last night, and boy, are my arms tired. Seriously though, flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle, it...
Friday, April 24, 2009

How to Give an Ignite Presentation

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What is an "Ignite Presentation" and how do you give it? Ignite talks are a style of presenting where people speak on a subject of...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

Ignite Minneapolis

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I am doing a talk at the upcoming Ignite Minneapolis this Wednesday (April 22) . Ignite presentations were invented by my friends Bre Pettis...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

Risk Taking and Decision Making

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I gave a talk yesterday about the Art of Living Dangerously at the Minnesota High Tech Conference. Some of what I spoke about is based on th...
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Thursday, April 09, 2009

Methylene Chloride and Dippy Bird Science

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Methylene Chloride is the bonding agent I used to attach one piece of polycarbonate plastic to another piece when I was constructing the fir...
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Monday, April 06, 2009

Publishers Weekly review

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My new book, Absinthe and Flamethrowers, was reviewed in today's Publisher's Weekly: Absinthe & Flamethrowers: Projects and Rumi...
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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Making Fireworks

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This weekend I've made fireworks with the chemicals I bought during Skylighter's half off sale last week. I made a couple fountains,...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

Blowing Stuff Up as A Kid

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Last night, I tried out a new combination of pyrotechnical chemicals in some fireworks I made. It was a fountain, or in pyrotechnical lingo,...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

Make Day at the Science Museum of Minnesota

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Me, Richard Hudson, John Edgar (Eggy) Park explain Maker life to visitors at Make Day --> At Make Day, Minnesota's finest tinkerers...
Monday, March 02, 2009

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I received word today that the people who run Make Magazine's Maker Shed (the magazine's online store which carries an terrific asso...
Friday, February 13, 2009

The Fire Piston

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Doesn't look like much, but it's actually way cool -> (click on picture to see it work) The fire piston is a clever little device...
Tuesday, February 03, 2009

The Maker President

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As a maker and rational risk taker, I was thrilled to hear President Obam a say this in his inaugural address: In reaffirming the greatness ...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Moaster

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What happens when you mix a toaster, an arduino, some pressurized CO2, and the same English ingenuity that brought the world the steam engin...
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Thursday, January 22, 2009

The Airborne Laser - World's Largest Hunk of Titanium

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Titanium alloy is extraordinarily strong, stiff, and light, all qualities coveted by people interested in cramming in as much horsepower int...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

How to be Interviewed on Live TV

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So, maybe you've been trying to figure out how to be interviewed on live television without crashing and burning. Well, don't worry,...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Potato Cannon Instructions - NOW RENDERED IN 3D!!!

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This is way, way cool . In 2006 I wrote an article for Make Magazine which describes in detail how to make a potato cannon. I called it the ...