This guest blog post is from Matthew Duckett, a Guerilla Science collaborator and structural engineer with Buro Happold. Matt and his colleagues worked with us to build the Fire Organ, a flaming tower of awesomeness that's touring the UK throughout summer and autumn 2015. My first...
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The first message bashed out on our vintage Underwood typewriter, pinned to the sparkly silver message board, set the tone: “Beware of bears. Send food and supplies. Xo” Most that followed struck the same chord. “We are here and we are having fun. Come and join us, come and join us,...
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Biochemical engineer Mike Hughson of UCL joined us (with fellow engineers Chris Grant and Matthew Shiers) at the Secret Garden Party and Bestival this summer with an outlandish event: The Vaccine Assault Course.  "Telling people what I do can be somewhat challenging,...
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Prosthetics expert Sarah Sydney from the University of Bath joined us at Bestival and introduced us to the cyborgs that walk among us today, from people who can walk again thanks to prosthetic limbs, to the lucky recipients of bionic eyes. Thanks to engineers like her the deaf...
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Engineer and robotocist Adam Spiers from the Bristol Robotics Laboratory brought his Haptic Lotus - a robotic flower like "a really dreadful Sat Nav" - to the Secret Garden Party. Here he tells us about the device, which uses infrared to help the sighted and the blind to move via touch, and "that...
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Tim Murray-Browne, an engineer and PhD student in the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London, brought IMPOSSIBLE ALONE to the Secret Garden Party this summer. He tells us more about this interactive installation and what it has to do with "science, technology, dance and life...
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Mechanical engineer Keri Collins from the University of Bath joined us at Bestival to explain why fish - and even turtles - are the best inspiration for submarine design, and how next year she might be the queues to the Isle of Wight in a pedal-powered sub... Bestival • Biomimicry • Engineering • Guest Post • Keri Collins • RAE

What better way to learn about chemical manufacturing processes than by careening through an assault course? Devised by engineers Mike Hughson and Chris Grant from the University College London, the Vaccine Assault Course brought chemistry to life with a mix of adrenaline,...
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