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
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
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
Endlighten is an acrylic sheet infused with colorless light diffusing particles. While regular acrylic only diffuses light around the edges, endlighten illuminates evenly across the entire surface. ...
light diffusing acrylic
Materials 101, Polymers
Another beautiful piece by Patrick Stevenson Keating via the Bare Conductive website:
For the 2012 Milan Furniture Fair, Patrick Stevenson-Keating put together some incredible lamps using Bare Paint suspended in oil. ...
liquidity :: oil + condutive ink lamps
Circuits, Conductive Materials
Patrick Stevenson Keating created a handcrafted glass particle accelerator for the Milan Design week:
The piece consists of a series of organically-shaped hand-blown glass bulbs – each attached to a pump via a tube ...
a handcrafted particle accelerator
Circuits
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
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
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
Last summer a few of us at NYC Resistor made the JelTone, a jello-based toy piano that can be eaten and played. Now, Marianne Cauvard and Raphael Pluvinage created the beautiful Noisy Jelly, a kit to make your own ...
noisy jelly :: an agar-based musical game
Organic Materials
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
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