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Instrument Playground (Google Arts & Culture)

Play and mix instruments from around the world right in your browser, with a little help from AI.

Viola the Bird (Google Arts & Culture)

Conduct a tiny bird-orchestra — a playable music toy, not just something to watch.

Marblevator — A Looping Marble Machine

A satisfying little marble contraption you can build and watch loop forever.

The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition (Micromouse)

Tiny robots memorize a maze, then sprint it at impossible speed. Mesmerizing engineering.

Party Parrot Zoetrope (Adafruit)

A spinning zoetrope that brings the internet's favorite party parrot to life.

How to Make Giant Transparent Sugar Crystals at Home - Crystalverse

Did you know that you can grow transparent sugar crystals at home?

The 11 Most Useful Knots Everyone Should Know

Clear animations of the knots every kid feels a little cooler knowing.

ROBOTS: Your Guide to the World of Robotics

A gray bipedal humanoid wearing a Unitree shirt stands posed with one arm raised.

20 Minutes of Charles Schulz Drawing Peanuts

Watch the master draw Snoopy and Charlie Brown — catnip for any kid who doodles.

GRAVITY — Interactive Solar System

Fling planets around and feel how gravity really works — a sandbox, not a lecture.

KenKen — Math Puzzles That Feel Like Games

Sudoku's playful cousin — sneaky math practice kids actually ask for.

How Disney Makes an Animated Film

A peek behind the curtain at how an animated movie actually gets made, step by step.

Animation for Beginners (DIY.org)

Explore the science and history of animation — then make your own.

Explorable Flexagons

- Introduces the *hexaflexagon*, with 6 equilateral triangles per face, and the *pinch flex*, a way of folding a flexagon to reveal previously hidden faces

Rabbit Waves

The International Code of Signals is a system of signals and codes designed to communicate important safety and navigational messages when speaking is difficult (because of languag

Mo Willems Workshop

#1 - Texico

How To Start A Rocket Engine | Everyday Astronaut

Liquid-fueled rocket engines operate by flowing fuel and oxidizer into a combustion chamber at high pressure in order to eject mass out of the rocket nozzle at high velocities. Whi

CircuitMess: DIY STEM Kits for Kids, Teens & Adults

CircuitMess projects are more than assembling and coding robots. They're about igniting a passion for STEM and building essential problem-solving skills.

Best kids books: The 25 greatest picture books of the past 25 years.

Illustration of a child's bookshelf that contains many of the books in this list, including Julián Is a Mermaid, Crown, Olivia, and They All Saw a Cat..

Searching for Birds

Most searched birds types in the US

Why the Short-Lived Calvin and Hobbes Is Still One of the Most Beloved & Influential Comic Strips

If you know more than a few millennials, you probably know someone who reveres *Calvin and Hobbes* as a sacred work of art. That comic strip’s cultural impact is even more remark

When J.R.R. Tolkien Posed as 'Father Christmas' for 23 Years

J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘Letters From Father Christmas.’ / Courtesy of William Morrow

Star Wars Intro Creator | Free Tool

Make your own Star Wars intro by editing the text below, then hit play and share!

The True Scale of Animals

The True Scale of Animals: Over the eons, animals have appeared in all shapes and sizes – from tiny tardigrades to building-sized dinosaurs. Global Data created this video to ill

All of Earth's water in a single sphere! | U.S. Geological Survey

All water on Earth in a sphere, placed over a "dry" globe

TAKE TECH

Collection - Van Gogh Museum

To offer you the best way to enjoy all about the museum and Vincent van Gogh on our website, we always use functional and analytical cookies. We ask for your permission to use cook

Category:Set of Platonic solids; nets with gluing edges - Wikimedia Commons

This category is an [image set](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Image_sets). It should contain only images that have the same style, and should have a parent category th

Radios, how do they work? - lcamtuf’s thing

Radio communications play a key role in modern electronics, but to a hobbyist, the underlying theory is hard to parse. We get the general idea, of course: we know about frequencies

Nuclear Reactor Simulator -

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Dungeon Scrawl | Free Online D&D Map Maker

Connect Dungeon Scrawl maps to pages in your Roll20 campaigns now. [Read more on our blog.](https://blog.roll20.net/posts/build-epic-vtt-maps-in-minutes-dungeon-scrawl-connects-wit

The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack'

Samurai Jack background art by Scott Wills

How to get kids to read for fun: People who work on middle-grade books have some ideas.

Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by mediaphotos/iStock/Getty Images Plus and Unsplash.

Calligraphr - Features

Fonts created with Calligraphr are standard Font files (ttf or otf format). Once created and downloaded, they work independently from Calligraphr, no problem if you want to delete

Library of Juggling - Home

Let's Get Creative

A fun collection of online creative games and apps

Eyes on the Solar System - Home - NASA/JPL

3D ISS Tracker

Tiny beauty: how I make scientific art from behind the microscope

Cheese fungus, head lice, human sperm, a bee eye, a microplastic bobble: scientific photographer Steve Gschmeissner has imaged them all under the probing lens of a scanning electro

Bead & Wire Running Man (Rob Ives)

Print, fold, and crank a paper automaton whose legs actually run.

Mechanical Creations

Akiyoshi's illusion pages

**Akiyoshi'sillusionpages**

Optical Lens Design Forms: An Ultimate Guide to the types of lens design

There are so many optical systems that are out there.

Why Feathers Are One of Evolution’s Cleverest Inventions

Fossil and living birds reveal the dazzling biology of feathers

Knit Hello – Typeknitting

Pluck - string instrument - fun!!

see this site for some coding background suggested in HN comments:

MatterChart - Interactive Periodic Table & Element Explorer

> "The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order." — Harlan Ellison

Japanese Milk Bread (Shokupan) (Video) 食パン • Just One Cookbook

Kites – Home (good site design)

How to Host an Epic Slime Party - Babble Dabble Do

It’s the best kind of messy, it’s creative, it’s a blast, these are three reasons you should consider throwing **an epic slime party** for your child’s next birthday!