Just found a great site 'animated knots by grog' which shows you how to tie a variety of different knots. Each knot automatically "ties itself" when the page opens.
The complete list has 119 knots, though some are ...
animated knots
Textiles
For the last couple of years a colleague of mine Ken Gregory has been researching kites as sound instruments. What he has produced is an Aeolian Kite, the kite functions similarly to an Aeolian Harp or wind harp. Rather ...
Introduction to Chemical Engineering (E20) is an introductory course offered by the Stanford University Engineering Department. It provides a basic overview of the chemical engineering field today and delves into the ...
introduction to chemical engineering
Chemicals
A Fab Lab (Fabrication Laboratory) is a workshop with a range of flexible manufacturing and prototyping tools that can be used to make "almost anything".
The types of fabrication tools you might find in a Fab Lab ...
Fab Labs
Tools
Peter Blasser has an inspiring website detailing his experiments with paper circuits. There are a whole range of circuits he has designed that you can print out and assemble yourself.
One interesting project is a ...
pretty paper rolls
Paper
Here's a novel way to learn all about chemistry. The video is brought to you by the European ...
the world of chemistry
Chemicals
Open Source Embroidery is a socially engaged art project initiated by Ele Carpenter in 2005, investigating the relationship between programming for embroidery and computing. It's based on the common characteristics of ...
open source embroidery
Textiles
I came to experiment with the construction of an arduino-on-wood just recently because I began to be interested in the idea of "embalming" data. Since some years ago I've been exploring ways to make visible and audible ...
“embalming” data
Circuits, Organic Materials
Understanding how we got 'here' plays an important role on our efforts to imagine and project the future. In that spirit here's a lecture given by Michael Riordan at the Computer History Museum addressing the broad ...
microcircuitry in the 1950s
Conductive Materials
Guilherme Martins and I have been working on a sculpture composed of a series of electronic circuits mixed with paper and other materials. These objects, each equipped with a custom designed PAPERduino, will be assembled ...
Still on the subject of printed and flexible electronics, here's another interesting article by the Technology Review. It describes what its creators call a "dirt-cheap technology" for producing printed supercapacitors ...
printed power
Conductive Materials
In my quest for DIY production techniques for flexible electronics and display technologies, I hit upon this article on Technology Review. It addresses a new technique, devised by researchers at Stanford University and ...
faster flexible electronics
Conductive Materials
