Researchers at Carnegie Mellon’s Biorobotics Lab have designed and built a robotic snake that can crawl, roll, wind and even climb like a real snake. Watching the video, it is hard to believe that the robot is not alive.
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Dad and Son Team Launch Balloon into Space
Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo. Here is a great father-son project. Luke Geissbuhler and his son were able to send a weather balloon to the very edge of space and successfully recovered the camera just a few miles…
Pinewood Derby® Engineering Data
1) BSA® Style Wheel Modifications: bsa_wheel1.pdf 2) BSA® Style Axle Modifications: bsa_axle1.pdf 3) BSA® Style Standard Block Dimensions and Mass Properties: bsa_block.pdf 4) BSA® Style Unmodified Car Dimensions and Mass Properties: bsa_assembly1.pdf, template3.pdf 5) Tungsten Car Weight drawing (tungsten.pdf) 6)…
Pinewood Derby® Speed Tips
First of all, I would like to say that bandsaws are very efficient finger removing machines. NEVER ALLOW A CHILD TO OPERATE A BANDSAW! That said, I have made lots of these cars, and have learned a little bit about…
Pinewood Derby® Plans
Easy Brackets for Kids’ Woodworking Projects
Here is an easy way to make the brackets we have been using for our kids’ woodworking projects. All you need is some perforated plumber’s tape (not Teflon tape). It is a soft steel tape that has holes punched in…
IF (A Poem by Rudyard Kipling)
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and…