Using a Sharpie can make gummy metals easier to cut. And we’re learning why. Online Digi-Comp II emulator (via The Computer Museum) Analyzing Solorigate from the Microsoft Security blog Exploring with Microscopes + Drones: San Rafael Bay, part of a new video series by Ariel Waldman The story of a community cannery in Portland, Oregon … Continue reading Linkdump: January 2021
Miniature Notepad Drafting Arm What Happened to the Submarines at West Edmonton Mall? (YouTube) A history of San Francisco lighted house numbers Breadboard wristwatch with bubble display (via hackster.io) What shape of 3D printed titanium implants best fosters bone adhesion? Typeset in the Future on Star Trek: The Motion Picture (featuring the Blaster Beam and … Continue reading Linkdump: December 2020
7-segment magnet-driven ball clock Thermite Welding Train Tracks A review of the Apple Face Mask, via The Prepared A 3D printed infinity mirror Jeffries tube. Design available here. My Unlicensed Hovercraft Bar Is Technically Legal Moving a large building by walking What Victorian-era seaweed pressings reveal about our changing seas Biofluorescence in the platypus
Restored, upscaled, and colorized film of a 1902 ride on a suspended train in Germany Early web artwork restoration at the Guggenheim Doubts, a carpet by artist Faig Ahmed “The Different Useless Machine” (Rotates the switch instead of flipping it.) Introduction to the FOSS Governance Collection, for documents about how open source projects are managed. … Continue reading Linkdump: October 2020
Lego Interface UX Are there dead wasps in figs? ONO: How the Biggest 3D Printing Scam of All Time Unfolded This promotional video from Exco, a maker of aluminum extrusion dies, shows a lot of what goes into manufacturing an extrusion die New Supergiant Isopod Discovered Slide show of How Cork is Made Joe Rinaudo’s … Continue reading Linkdump: September 2020
ISS solar transit showing the SpaceX Crew Dragon and the Canadarm2 by Thierry Legault on YouTube A DIY Neon Pixel Display Ramelli’s Rotating Reader built by RIT students who called it a 16th century version of a multitabbed browser FBI Motivational Posters from WW2, obtained via FOIA request Graffiti covered e-bike, designed to blend in … Continue reading Linkdump: August 2020
Inside the Pulsar Calculator watch from 1975 Simrefinery recovered Putting the coronavirus under the microscope The helium shortage has ended, at least for now Ken Shirriff looks at the 8086 processor Strike a solder joint behind enemy lines Testing the Mars helicopter in a simulated martian atmosphere A project to make a DEC H-500 Computer … Continue reading Linkdump: July 2020
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
