Projects from the DeArmond Makerspace, Price Science Commons, and Dean Walton
Two thousand twenty-four hosted the second total eclipse crossing all the way across the USA in just seven years. From the perspective of scientists, eclipses present time for experimentation. This year was not going...
A spectrogram of bat echolocating food, recorded by the author This is a mainly a story about listening to bats, but also about computers and conservation and a few other things like physics...
The Price Science Commons promotes research and education in a myriad of ways, from providing a makerspace were a person can develop their devices and sensors, or providing math tutors, to providing a suite...
An image from a GoPro Max 360° Spherical Video Camera Associated with the use of UAV-Quadcopters to help create virtual experiences of real places (see the last post) the Price Science Commons also...
A set of 2-meter / 70-cm Handheld radios with some other functions including GPS, temperature, FM Radio, and APRS tracking, a 10-meter radio, a 2-meter radio beacon, a remote camera and other odds and...
In my last post I wrote about using radio beacons connected to the APRS or Automatic Packet Reporting Service for some of our DeArmond MakerSpace student’s projects. This is where a radio broadcasts data...
I was recently contacted by the Museum of Natural and Cultural History to make a few replicas of Oregon’s only dinosaur fossil, a dinosaur toe bone, for one of their outreach programs. The state...
One of the really cool hands-on projects that allows students to explore, test their design skills, and challenge their understanding of materials science is a solar hotbox project. I have blogged on these before,...
Three billion birds – It’s a big number A recent report published in the journal Science indicates that there are 3 billion less birds flying around North America today than there were in...
In partnership with the University of Oregon STEMCORE program and the Oregon Science Teachers Association, the Price Science Commons hosted a workshop on building environmental sensors. I led the session with the help...