Scratch Built

Third Period is soon finishing up the RC Prop Car Challenge (aka "The Hunger Games"). Here's a look at what the next step will be in the RC series:

Kinect-a-thon

Nice job Jackson:

Lego Man in Space

Two 17 year olds put this together. What other awesome Lego Man project can you dream up?
Story here: The Science and Engineering Behind Lego Man in Space

Kinect + Minecraft

This is one for those of you familiar with Minecraft (We've used Minecraft as a collaborative construction playspace in a couple of our classes this year).

Take a look at this Kinect hack...

Skateboards?

I'm trying to guage the level of interest there would be in doing a project that was making/shaping a skateboard deck out of a glued up 7-ply skateboard blank with concave already pressed into it (similar to the picture above).

Materials would be in the $20 pricerange.

Please leave a comment on this post if this is something you'd be excited to work on!

***Update - Please comment if you would be interested regardless of cost***

The Revolution Will Be Televised

Part 1:

Q - What technologies facilitated the regime change we witnessed in Egypt today? List 3. Describe how each technology came about and how each were used in support of the protest.


Part 2:
Does anyone know Arabic? The following is a list of "essential equipment" protest organizers disseminated to participants (click photo for larger version):


Q - List each of the items displayed in the image. Make your best guess about how they could be repurposed to support peaceful demonstration in the face of an authoritarian regime.