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Geekdad: The 5 Best Toys of All Time [T]o help you out, I’ve worked really hard to narrow down this list to five items that no kid should be without. All five should fit easily within any budget, and...
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Gifts from the Beyond Neutral Zone
New toy! This is a hexbug larva, and yes, it looks a bit like a baby Ceti eel from The Wrath of Khan. It’s autonomous, so the redirection is happening on its own. What’s going on? Little flashy...
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The Free Universal Construction Kit The Free Universal Construction Kit … is a collection of nearly 80 adapter bricks that enable complete interoperability between ten popular children’s construction...
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And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, Again “We also get to talk about tension and compression,” he said, though he avoids technical terms. “We talk about pushing and pulling.” His big innovation is using...
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Nothing to Do with that Little Blue Pill
Make your own epic-scale water weenie! One of the classic squirt mechanisms is the “water weenie,” where the water is stored under pressure in a length of elastic tubing, and the force to eject the...
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Star Destroyer made from Cardboard. Just in case a full-scale Millennium Falcon is beyond your capabilities. [T]he major benefit of using cardboard is that my little guy can lift up such a massive ship...
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Cocktail Party Physics: dinosaurs, mars, and kareem abdul jabbar: science books for the kids on your shopping list Cosmic Variance: Ten Toys That You Won’t Mind Buying
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How To Make the Best Snowfort Ever Pedantic note: if you go with the pykrete option, it’s no longer a snow fort.
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Welcome to Crazy Eddie’s
Pretty crazy, and enjoyable, but I think it falls a little short of insane.
View ArticleThe Ocean and its Toys
The Cornish beaches where Lego keeps washing up [T]he container ship Tokio Express was hit by a wave described by its captain as a “once in a 100-year phenomenon”, tilting the ship 60 degrees one way,...
View ArticleEverything is Awesome, When You’re a Part of the Measurement Team
How To Measure Planck’s Constant Using Lego Planck’s constant comes in because of an historical idiosyncrasy in the way power units have been defined. Since 1990, almost all electrical measurements...
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