Upgraded Self-Playing Piano Can Talk Like a Human and Play the World's Most Impossibly Complex Songs
Chopstix trades a pianist for solenoid activators and a complex computer brain.
A Former NASA Engineer and an Ex-Toy Designer Made a Steerable Bowling Ball That Always Gets Strikes
Mark Rober, a former NASA JPL engineer, recently teamed up with James Bruton, an ex-toy designer and all-around…
You can try as hard as you want, but you’ll never be as cool an uncle as ex-NASA JPL engineer Mark Rober. Using…
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Last summer, Mark Rober built the world’s largest Nerf dart gun, capable of blasting foam at 40 mph. Sure, that…
Mark Rober, who we last saw engineering a dart board that guaranteed a bullseye with every throw, has just built…
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If you crossed a Super Soaker with a paintball gun, you’d get this wild creation from our friend Mark Rober: a crazy…
There’s nothing quite like using the scientific method to figure out what’s happening in a silly party trick that…
Would you sink or float if you were tossed into a gigantic vat of squishy gelatinous spheres, more popularly known…
Every child and every adult who wants to be a child again loves a good Nerf gun. They’re fun to shoot, whether…
Here’s how you spend a good summer day: find a giant trampoline, fill up 1,500 water balloons, and then bounce…
YouTube scientist Mark Rober and molten metal obsessive BackyardScientist teamed up to answer a simple question: is…