Do you want to learn how to solder and make really cool things?  Or teach someone else so they can make really cool things too?  Check out this great instructional comic book, Soldering is Easy.  

Also, coming soon, How To Make Cool Things With Microcontrollers (For People Who Know Nothing)< … Read More → "Announcing the “Soldering is Easy” complete comic book"

Jaime Oliver’s “Silent Drum” uses an elastic membrane drum head as a sound controller. A camera inside reads the shape of the drum head as it’s manipulated with the hands, then translates that into data that triggers sounds.

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“When people think of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), they envision activities like camping, knot-tying, and canoeing, but soon, they’ll need to add robot-building to that list. Scouts in 2011, through the introduction of the Robotics merit badge, now have the opportunity to design, build, and demonstrate a robot of their own creation.

The Robotics merit badge is part of the BSA’s new … Read More → "NASA and the Boy Scouts introduce merit badge for robotics"

“Rod Millen is a legend in truck and rally car racing, so he decided that he needed to get an adrenaline fix every day. Having held the record time for the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, he figured one way to make life more interesting was to turn his long boring driveway into an amazing world class hill climb course.”

read more at Dvice

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Curiosity, the new Mars Rover, is too big to land by bouncing along on airbags the way Spirit and Opportunity did. And since it couldn’t use a parachute in Mars’ thin atmosphere to slow it down enough, engineers at JPL came up with this hovercraft/sky crane method.

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“Only 11.5 percent of all engineers in the U.S. are women, according to the National Science Foundation, and business leaders say it is critical that more young women consider a career in engineering to help bridge the gap.

The Verizon Foundation is enabling Tufts University’s Center for Engineering and Education Outreach to help attract more girls to the field of engineering.  … Read More → "Verizon Foundation awards grant to Tufts University to engage more girls in engineering"

“Oscium’s New iMSO-104 Oscilloscope Powered By Cypress’s PSoC® 3 Device Turns iPod touch, iPhone and iPad into Easy-to-Use Mixed Signal Scopes.”

via Engadget

Here’s how it works:

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One of the first planes to dock at Virgin America’s new San Francisco International Airport terminal was a spaceship. via Wired