Category Archives: GeekDad

Our favorite high-flying teacher Todd Stowe is in the midst of another high-altitude camera-attached-to-a-weather-balloon project right this very minute. You can track the progress of package as it ascends to the heavens live, right now, right here. A… Continue reading →

We are very sad to pass along news that Elisabeth Sladen, who played intrepid reporter and Timelord companion Sarah Jane Smith during the Pertwee and Baker eras of Doctor Who, has passed away at the age of 63. The BBC has issued a statement on her passing, noting that she had been battling cancer for […] Continue reading →

I don’t do a lot of direct PR for the Geek Dad books here on GeekDad, which is probably a mistake, but it’s always felt a bit funny using this community forum for personal promotion. On the other hand, I’m always encouraging the other GeekDad writers to promote their outside work here, so I figure […] Continue reading →

Love triangle? (Photo by Nathan Barry)

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We at GeekDad would like to send our congratulations to Michael and Evan at Siege Toys for reaching their Kickstarter funding goal four days early! We are all looking forward to some epic desktop trebuchet action at Maker Faire in May!

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Mike Koehler is a man with a dream – and a mistaken understanding of my importance in the greater geek universe. A couple days ago, he tweeted Adam Savage (Mythbusters), Mark Frauenfelder (Make Magazine), and me (you know) about his grand idea to bring America together: use Kickstarter funds and the collective genius of the […] Continue reading →

Ken, Matt and Jonathan chat about the anniversary of the first man in space, the first Space Shuttle mission, and how effective it is to be a pedant. Enjoy!
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GeekDad.com is the parenting blog at Wired.com, edited by Ken Denmead, Matt Blum, Jonathan Liu and […] Continue reading →

It’s the Ikea flatpack vision of ballista. The Trebuchette, designed by Evan Murphy and Michael Woods, turns one of the greatest inventions in the history of siege warfare and makes it a kit you can punch out and assemble in 15 minutes. I should know, I’ve done it.
Evan and Michael are two young engineers on […] Continue reading →

As geeks, we’re fans of puzzles (indeed, we run a puzzle-a-week here on GeekDad). The challenge these days is that so many puzzles can so easily be solved by simply Googling for the answer, it’s hard to find any really good puzzles. The ease of finding answers to our questions on the internet takes the […] Continue reading →

This is one of those questions that could erupt into the kind of flamewars that shut down message boards. But it’s so hard to resist the debate. There have been so many heroes and heroines in the comics who are, in essence, makers or hackers or builders of awesome gadgets. So Phillip Torrone has opened […] Continue reading →