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Rainy Day Maker: Oobleck
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I am located in the Northwest, I am a geek, and I am a dad. I love Make Magazine, Instructables.com, Mythbusters, and Nova. Tuesday, May 13, 2008. With the sodium acetate demonstration for the 5 th. Grade class I also built a rig to demonstrate the properties of oobleck. Is a mixture of corn starch and water. In the right mixture it crumbles under stress but flows when not stressed. On top of the 60 Hz. Frequency it stands up and dances. There are various videos on Youtube. About the mystery substance th...
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Rainy Day Maker: Cloud Chamber
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I am located in the Northwest, I am a geek, and I am a dad. I love Make Magazine, Instructables.com, Mythbusters, and Nova. Sunday, March 8, 2009. My cloud chamber adventures started with the LHC. Video on YouTube that a friend at work shared. I forwarded the link to my son's teacher the week before the first parent teacher meeting of the 2008-09 school year. Last year I brought demonstrations of oobleck. For a presentation. She invited me to come back this year. It is a 5 th. And the cloud chamber, and ...
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Rainy Day Maker: Summer Vacation 2008
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I am located in the Northwest, I am a geek, and I am a dad. I love Make Magazine, Instructables.com, Mythbusters, and Nova. Wednesday, September 10, 2008. On July 19, 2008 I dropped Edson. Airport to fly to Toronto Ontario with one of the local staff from Keewaydin. We drove from Seattle East on I90 and I94 through North Dakota and the twin cities to Waupaca. Ste Marie. We drove across the border past midnight. My favorite question at the border was "Do you have any live meat? Was wonderful. Objibway.
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Rainy Day Maker: Make Faire San Mateo 2008
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I am located in the Northwest, I am a geek, and I am a dad. I love Make Magazine, Instructables.com, Mythbusters, and Nova. Wednesday, May 14, 2008. Make Faire San Mateo 2008. The whole family drove south to the Bay Area to attend the Make Faire. This year. We were hoping for a chance to compete in the king of fling competition, but they did not hold the competition this year. We visited the Exploratorium. On Friday before the Faire. An amazing place to visit and an outstanding gift and book shop.
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Rainy Day Maker: Ping Pong Ball Canon
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I am located in the Northwest, I am a geek, and I am a dad. I love Make Magazine, Instructables.com, Mythbusters, and Nova. Monday, February 22, 2010. Ping Pong Ball Canon. Next I will build a rack to hold a few aluminum cans. Marc “Zeke” Kossover. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe to my blog. Keewaydin 2008 End of Summer Paddle In. 5 Dangerous Things For Kids. Randy Pausch's Home Page. SRC Seattle Robotics Society. View my complete profile.
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Rainy Day Maker: Science in the shop
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I am located in the Northwest, I am a geek, and I am a dad. I love Make Magazine, Instructables.com, Mythbusters, and Nova. Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Science in the shop. My son gave me a day warning that he wanted some help for a presentation he was giving in science class, so last night we spent a couple hours in the shop building and filming. Edson is in 8th grade and his class is working through the fundamental laws of physics. He was assigned Bernoulli's principle. He knew the venturi effect. The i...
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Rainy Day Maker: Sodium Acetate
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I am located in the Northwest, I am a geek, and I am a dad. I love Make Magazine, Instructables.com, Mythbusters, and Nova. Tuesday, May 13, 2008. My son's 5 th. Grade class studied Solutions in science. At the beginning of the year for open house the teacher mentioned the topic I had recently seen the PopSci. And a Make post. I ordered my crystallized. Sodium acetate from United Nuclear. Look for reruns of Wired Science. To see a story about them. I later realized making the crystals.
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Rainy Day Maker: Soda Bottle Rocket Launcher
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I am located in the Northwest, I am a geek, and I am a dad. I love Make Magazine, Instructables.com, Mythbusters, and Nova. Thursday, March 17, 2011. Soda Bottle Rocket Launcher. 65279;. 65279;I decided to make the launcher building my own competition,. And started building a 4 pad launcher. Not liking the PVC launcher designs on the internet, I wanted something that would take a beating year after year. In the end out my fellow builder did not. Complete his launcher. My launcher works well and th...