How to assemble a Raygun Gothic Rocketship
Here is a nifty time-lapse video of us assembling the Raygun Gothic Rocketship at NASA Ames for Yuri’s night. I love the way we scurry about in this video. Also be sure to check out these spectacular photos of the Raygun Gothic at Yuri’s night. And stay tuned for more […]
The Raygun Gothic Rocketship at NASA for Yuri’s Night (aka The Astronaut Party)
Along with the fantastic Five Ton Crane crew, Almost Scientific just completed another installation of the Raygun Gothic Rocketship at NASA Ames. While setting up our rocket and getting to play with it for a few days is always something special, this time we also got to share it with […]
Video of the Bring Your Own Big Wheel Race!
I live on the most twisty street in San Francisco. No, not Lombard St … Vermont St! And of all the crazy, stupid events that happens on this street on a regular basis the best is the Bring Your Own Big Wheel race (BYOBW). That’s right, on Easter Sunday, all […]
15 kV @ 100 mm
Ever since I started to make high voltage arcs for shits and giggles I’ve wanted to get really, really, really, really close up to one, watch it spark and wiggle. This is as dangerous as you think it is, so I’ve never done it (these guys do). I know you […]
Lecture on the relationship between Art and Science
Last week I had the great pleasure of of speaking to the National Cancer Institute about the relationship between art and science. Below I’ve posted the visual part of the presentation, but sadly there is not audio or video recording to go along. Here is a brief summary of my […]
The Inverse Graphing Calculator
Inverse Graphing Calculator The Inverse Graphing Calculator (version beta-1) is like a backwards graphing calculator. Normally, you enter an equation into your calculator and then get a graph of the curve. The way the IGC works is, you type something you’d like as your curve, like ‘Hello World’ or ‘I […]
Limited Edition Raygun Gothic Rocketship Papercraft Models For Sale
My limited edition papercraft models of The Raygun Gothic Rocketship are for sale on Makers Market. I’m not going to say exactly how we got these. But I will say there are several Tublians on Neblous-9 who risked a lot to get these to me. I hope none of them […]
Aperture Lamp
I’ve had this small Aperture that I made as a prototype for the Triaparator that has been kicking around my studio for a while. Well, I’ve decided to turn it into a lamp. Fitting huh? It’s still has that raw, being-worked on look to it but it’s close enough to […]
Uira Engine Plasma Tube Test
I know I’ve posted a video of some of the experiments we did involving evacuating the plasma tubes of the Uira Engine but I’m not sure I ever posted any video of this later tube design.
Orginal Concept Drawings of The Neuron Chamber by Backbone Metals
Wow. I found this when I was cleaning out my laptop hard drive. This is one of the first concept drawings Ben (of Backbone Metals fame) did when he and I were first planning The Neuron Chamber. It’s amazing how close we got to these original drawings while still creating […]
Raygun Gothic Rocketship Papercraft Model
I’m not sure if I’ve posted about it here (I’m loosing track of what I’ve been posting where) but I’ve been working on a papercraft model of the RGR in addition to the wooden model. I really had no idea how hard it was going to be to design a […]
Norgren Lamp in progress
I’ve started working on a new lamp. The idea for this came from two components that have been kicking around on my work bench for a while that I realized would work well together. The first is one of those pneumatic things that prevents your trunk from slamming down on […]
Almost Scientific Showing on March 5
Almost Scientific will be showing The Triaparator and some new odds and ends on Friday, March 5th. The show is at 416 26th Street, Oakland, (Betw.Telegraph and Broadway) This is the first show of the nascent Five Ton Crane.
Spinny Thing Update
A few weeks ago I posted about a few new sculptures I’ve started, none of which have any designs or plans, but are “make them up as you go along” projects. One of them I’ve been calling Spinny or sometimes Spinny Thing and it’s going to, well spin. The spinning […]
Prototype of the scale, wooden model of the Raygun Gothic Rocket
So one of the ideas I had while building the Rocket Sam papercraft model was to build some scale models of the Raygun Gothic Rocket that everyone would be able to build. I’m doing the first in wood, and I just got done putting together a prototype. This was laser […]
Rocket Sam Build from the SF Panorama
About a month or so ago I picked up a copy of the SF Panorama which was almost too great for words. One of the best things in it was a Rocket Sam comic by Chris Ware that, on the back, had a paper-craft model of rocket. Well, the other […]
West Oakland Rocketry Club Highlights
The West Oakland Rocketry Club is an Art Rocketry club, based out of West Oakland CA, that Almost Scientific has been part of since the first launch. Every once in a while (usually at the prompting of Radio Robot) we gather up our hot glue guns, cardboard tubes, Estes motors, […]