Distractions
- a collection of interesting links
An assortment of links that were to be used as [ distraction | bribery | rewards ](delete as appropriate) for good bedtime behaviour.
- A Homemade Rocket Soars 37 km in 92 Seconds
- Angry Birds and football
- A video camera attached to the end of a broadsword
- Jetlev FAIL and glorious recovery
- detailed scale drawings of lots of space craft from lots of different fictional universes
- penguins take to the air with a coat of bubbles
- skydiving like you’ve never seen it before
- an interesting puzzle game, refraction
- Star Wars and Toccata and fugue, played on a Glass Harp (yep, just glasses partially filled with water)
- Toccata and fugue, played on an organ, with the notes visualised
- Tom Lehrer’s Elements song, New Math (there will be a test afterwards), and Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
- The Sand Flea Jumping Robot really does leap tall buildings with a single bound
- A DIY Portal gun pops wormholes all over the house: Prepare to pick their chins up off the floor.
- Fancy domino work. Should be obvious after 10secs or so as to basically what is going on. Fancy domino work. But what is being built?
- creative barcodes. Very nice example of an opportunity for some creative art.
