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Preview of Physarum Maze
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Watch a slime mould solve a maze
A maze for the slime mould that out-planned Tokyo’s railway engineers. Pour a thin layer of agar, put a crumb of Physarum at the start and oat flakes at the finish, and close the lid; over a few days the yellow mould explores every lane, then withdraws from the dead ends and leaves one vein along the shortest route.
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Preview of Seed Crystal
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Hang seed crystals in a jar of solution
A cap for growing crystals at home. Turn it over a wide jar of hot saturated alum, salt or sugar solution, tie a seed crystal to each of three threads through the holes and let them hang at different depths. The engraved labels keep track of which solution grows which habit.
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Preview of Samara Drop
By Krypto
Complexity
Simple
MAIN PURPOSE: Show autorotation with a printed maple seed
A flying maple key. Press an M4 nut into the seed pocket, drop it from a stair or balcony and it autorotates like a sycamore seed, spinning down slowly on its single wing. Bend the trailing edge slightly to change its spin.
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Preview of Strobilus
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Read the humidity from a real pine cone
A pine cone hygrometer. Cone scales open as air dries and close when it is damp, a movement with no power or electronics. Sit a real cone in the cup against the back board and read how far its scales reach: past the WET marks, past the DRY marks, or in between.
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Preview of Funicular Frame
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Find arch and vault shapes with hanging chains
A table for finding arches the way Gaudi did. Print it, turn it over so the perforated deck is on top, hang lengths of ball chain between the holes and set a mirror underneath: every sagging chain is a perfect arch in tension, and the mirror shows it standing upright as a vault in compression.
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Preview of Corbel Reach
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium (set)
MAIN PURPOSE: Stack blocks to overhang beyond the table edge
A stacking puzzle about how builders spanned before arches. Each block carries engraved marks at a half, quarter, sixth and eighth of its length: stack eight, each one set back to the next mark, and the top block ends up entirely beyond the edge of the table, held by nothing but balance.
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Preview of Kamal latitude finder
By Krypto
Complexity
Simple
MAIN PURPOSE: Measure latitude from the Pole Star
The card Arab navigators used to find latitude: hold the knotted cord in your teeth, push the card out until the bottom edge sits on the horizon and the top edge touches the Pole Star. A knot for each place you know becomes a latitude scale.
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Preview of Litre cube
By Krypto
Complexity
Simple
MAIN PURPOSE: Show that a litre is a 10 cm cube
A hollow cube exactly 10 cm inside in every direction: fill it with water from a measuring jug and children see that one litre and 1000 cubic centimetres are the same thing, then weigh it and meet the kilogram too.
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Preview of Half-metre trundle wheel
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Measure distances by counting wheel turns
A 159.2 mm wheel with a circumference of exactly 500 mm: push it along the playground on a dowel axle and count the turns, two per metre. A hands-on way to meet pi and to measure distances too long for a ruler.
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Preview of Telescope solar projection box
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Watch the Sun safely by projection
Push the 1.25 inch eyepiece into the back hole, point the telescope at the Sun and its image falls on the white front wall inside the shaded box: a whole class can watch sunspots and eclipses through the open side, with nobody looking through the scope.
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