The Neuron Chamber will be at Fire Arts Festival July 15-18, 2009
What?!? You haven’t seen The Neuron Chamber yet! Well if you live in the Bay Area now is your chance! The Neuron Chamber will be at The Crucible’s 9th Annual Fire Arts Festival July 15-18, 2009. That’s starting tomorrow night! Click here for directions!
Raygun Gothic Rocket at the Desert Arts Preview
Here is a fresh transmission from the Raygun Gothich Rocket project:
Raygun Gothic Rocket on Make blog!
Check out the post on the Make blog about the Raygun Gothic Rocket featuring video by Almost Scientific!:
It Doesn’t Cook Alien Brains, But Yes, It Is a Neuron Chamber — Almost Scientific featured in Solid Smack
My pal Corbett over at Instinct Engineering just let me know that Almost Scientific and The Neuron Chamber were featured on the Solid Works design blog Solid Smack. You can find the original post here, but here is the text of the post: It’s not so much that everything in […]
Raygun Gothic Rocket work night
Just another night building the Raygun Gothic Rocket:
Want to know what you’re doing this Friday night? You’re coming to the Raygun Gothic Rocket Galactic Gala!
Charge up your jet pack, set your raygun to indigo, run a final system check and power-up your un-licensed, un-tested n-phase thrust generator and plot a course to … The Galactic Gala! This is your chance to support The Raygun Gothic Rocketship and experience the greatest intergalactic event this side […]
The Neuron Chamber on Laughing Squid
Laughing Squid is always one of the first blogs I check out to see what is going on in the Bay Area and beyond, so it was supper cool to load it up this morning and see The Neuron Chamber right there at the top of the page. Thanks Laughing […]
Anoter video of The Neuron Chmaber at Maker Faire
Here is a every so slightly more polished (and short) video of The Neuron Chamber experience at Maker Faire this year. Overall we had a fantastic time. I’d like to thank Dale and all the other organizers of Maker Faire for putting together such a fantastic event. Thanks also to […]
Raygun Gothic Rocket Model — Blastoff!
First, I did the 3d model. Then Jo printed the model and cast it, then …
The Neuron Chamber in Gizmodo
Tom Sepe just passed me a link to a Gizmodo post featuring The Neuron Chamber. Here is my posted reply to the orginal post and the comments: Hello all — I’m the artist responsible for The Neuron Chamber. First, thanks to Gizmodo for the post and thanks to ya’all for […]
Fresh video of The Neuron Chamber at Maker Faire
Stay tuned for more …
The Raygun Gothic Rocket model is alive!
Last night Jo brought the 3d-print of the RGR model I made last week. We printed it in four sections with the fins separate, then glued them all together and put on a coat of primer. This stands ~10″ tall. Armed with this Jo can now cast this into various […]
Dog Park Science: Part 1 — The Evolution of Dogs
In honor of my dog Piper, who had a very bad day recently when he got a huge fox-tail stuck in his nose, I’ve posted the audio of a talk I delivered a few weeks ago at The Exploratorium about the evolution of the domestic dog. If you have ever […]
The Neuron Chamber at Maker Faire
Just a reminder folks … Almost Scientific and The Neuron Chamber will be at Maker Faire this coming Weekend (May 30-31) in San Mateo CA as part of the Applied Kinetic Arts show! Last year we were there with the Dihemispheric Chronaether Agitator and had a great time!
Raygun Gothic Rocket Model
Almost Scientific has done a solid body model of our Raygun Gothic Rocket, complete with some sexy details like sheet metal, rivets and two door. This is very close to what we hope the final rocket will look like. After 3d-printing this model Jo Slota is going to cast it. […]
Lightning Rings
Almost Scientific collaborator Dr. Wade Enright has been in town for the past few days and we’ve been working on some new high-voltage effects with him. These are continuations of out past experiments with dielectric barrier discharge Hear are some photos from last nights experiments. Thanks to Nick for shooting […]