Blog (September 2013)

30-9-13

Trees Information Booklet

If you couldn't make the last public open day about Trees, fear not! We have uploaded an information document with lots of exciting tree related facts and links. More

27-9-13

The plaster bust of Charles Darwin’s head from UCL's Grant Museum has been digitally 3D scanned – transmutated from plaster into data. What could YOU do with it? Will you mould him from jelly? Cast a hologram? Mill him from wood? More

26-9-13

Materials Bursary

The Institute of Making is delighted to announce the Professor Heinz Wolf Materials Bursary scheme has gone live. More

22-9-13

Scrambled Messages: The Telegraphic Imaginary 1857 - 1900

Starting soon - an interdisciplinary research project looking at the materials and technologies of the telegraph, and their impact on the British Victorian cultural imagination. More

20-9-13

Lego2Nano Project

Institute of Making members are involved in an exciting collaborative research, making and citizen science project aimed at making low-cost Atomic Force Microscopes from LEGO. More

18-9-13

LEGO2NANO - The LEGO microscope challenge

In one week, can 32 young scientists and designers from China and the UK develop a new type of low-cost scanning probe microscope, powerful enough to study the nano world? More

04-9-13

Public Open day - September 28th: Trees

Join us on Saturday the 28th of September for our final public open day for this year. From the the world's toughest rubber, chewing gum made from trees, maple syrup, and just so much more. More