MAKE: Magazine’s store offers a Designing Automata Kit for $59.95. The kit comes with “everything you see here!” (at right). Auto-what? Automata (n): The plural of automaton, self-operating machines or mechanisms. The kits include shaped and drilled wood pieces that are fit together with dowels. No glue or tools required. The automata you build here [...]
Archive for the ‘engineering’ Category
I love February because it’s when I get to teach engineering to my tech students — culminating with National Engineers Week, February 18-24, 2007. My middle school tech classes will spend all of February learning about engineering disciplines and working engineering projects. In 2006, my students built bridges out of craft sticks, designed ping pong [...]
