The real lord of the flies Learn python from the NSA Index Pick and Place, an open source pick and place machine. Video intro here. Matisse designed a chapel in Vence A fully automated bread production line (YouTube) A Roman villa mosaic floor has been found near Verona How to draw the Corona Virus From … Continue reading Linkdump: May 2020
“Do we want to get to the moon or not?” John C. Houbolt was responsible for the Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous plan A video comparison of different laser marking compounds for use with CO2 lasers Figures in the Sky: How cultures across the World have seen their myths and legends in the stars A wonderful little <$10 … Continue reading Linkdump: April 2020
Dial Indicator Clock Anatomy of a rental phishing scam The Best Crispy Roast Potatoes Ever Recipe Fixie Clock with OLED based “fake NIXIE” tubes The placebo effect and veterinary care Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s A list of projects that took an exceptionally long time Trash Amps: Nifty DIY speaker and guitar amp … Continue reading Linkdump: March 2020
Open source SVG emoji from Twitter 2-Bit Mario: A physical Mario Brothers game The most important device in the universe, built by prop designer John Zabrucky Video made from photos of Comet 67p taken by Rosetta A Conversation on Microbiomes mostly focused on the Sourdough Project Cat Coat Genetics 101: A Tweetorial Thermochromic 7-segment display … Continue reading Linkdump: January 2020
An interactive history of the subway map @ NYTimes Audubon weighs in on memes: When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide Wired profiles Cliff Stoll Lego Axle Sorter RasterCarve: A free software package for CNC carving images Touchscreen interfaces and the USS John S. McCain Waiting For An Earthquake is a demo … Continue reading Linkdump: December 2019
You can now buy a 50 mm LED On the effect of wake in wind farms Summary article on original research to develop a map of the US food supply chain What’s All This Pease Prototype Stuff, Anyhow? Does a scale measure mass or weight? Poisonous books: analyses of four sixteenth and seventeenth century book … Continue reading Linkdump: November 2019
This is a demo board I made for some #flexures, some of which I have used for projects, others I just think are so cool. #lasercut #delrin pic.twitter.com/5Hdkc5TYJO — Amy Qian (@amy_makes_stuff) October 28, 2019 Expert teardown of the Logitech MX Master 3 mouse Saturn has 20 newly found moons and you can help name … Continue reading Linkdump: October 2019
Pricing Niche Products An illustrated guide to San Francisco’s hidden restaurants Area woman heads to town and impulse-buys entire bookstore. Sea urchins have teeth that sharpen themselves Prop designers wax nostalgic on the hardest props of their careers We could send a tiny spacecraft to visit Interstellar Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), but it isn’t easy … Continue reading Linkdump: September 2019
Casting Glass from 3D Printed Molds Documentation on data storage and file formats Cats with Cameras Svg2Shenzhen: An Inkscape extension for exporting artwork as PCB graphics The “terrible” 3 cent MCU – a short survey of sub $0.10 microcontrollers. Sparktrola Tesla Coil Plasma Speaker Thermochromic temperature and humidity display Make your own GENIAC replica Carvone: … Continue reading Linkdump: August 2019
The Punjabi truck stops of America Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer NeverSSL: A surprisingly useful non-SSL web site Crashed plane located in a pub Doc Pop hired writers and artists on Fiverr to play a game of telephone How and Why Sunflowers Turn Their Golden Heads Secretly Public Doman highlights books of a … Continue reading Linkdump: July 2019
