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This is a guest blog post by Laurence Humier and includes a recipe from her new book (written in collaboration with Audrey Tardieu) Cooking Material: Could molecular gastronomy help discover new matter? (also available on ...

molecular gastronomy :: boric acid caramel

Chemicals, Techniques

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In this video Becky Stern from Adafruit shows how to make a simple circuit on a transparent sheet of plastic coated with indium tin ...

transparent circuit boards

Circuits, Conductive Materials, Polymers, Techniques

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This is a guest post by Victor Babbitt - thank you Victor for sharing your work with us. Light is much harder to handle than electricity. How do we transfer large amounts of light over distances and around many corners? ...

liquid core light guides :: piping light around corners

Ceramics & Glass, Research, Techniques

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I used to buy magnetic paint, but I wasn't very happy with its strength, consistency and color, so Nick Vermeer and I decided to make our own. More often than not, things turn out to be more complicated than they appear, ...

DIY magnetic ink

Materials 101, Metal, Techniques

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A few months ago I visited Pumping Station: One where I met William McShane and saw his magnetic + conductive paint LED display. On the video above William explains how it works. This was recorded with my phone so the ...

fresh paint :: a magnetic + conductive ink LED display

Circuits, Conductive Materials, Techniques

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A few months ago, Jordan Bunker from the hackerspace Pumping Station: One shared his experiments and simple recipe for a DIY conductive ink. Now, Nick Vermeer from the hackerspace NYC Resistor, arrived at a different ...

more DIY conductive inks

Conductive Materials, Techniques

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Jordan Bunker from Pumping Station: One has been making his own conductive ink based on a paper written by researchers at the UIUC Materials Research Laboratory. This technique uses easily obtainable materials and tools, ...

hackerspace-made conductive ink

Conductive Materials, Techniques

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University of Illinois researchers explain how they make their conductive ink on this step-by-step tutorial. (via Boing ...

how to make conductive ink

Conductive Materials, Paper, Techniques

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[caption id="attachment_4819" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="LED Dragon Kite by Jie Qi"][/caption] Jie Qi, from MIT's High-Low Tech group, posted a couple really nice tutorials on how to combine paper, electronics ...

paper + electronics tutorials

Conductive Materials, Paper, Techniques