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
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
