- Interactive Conductive Thread Art (YouTube)
- Stenophylla: coffee for a warmer climate
- A 142 year old experiment on seed viability
- How to grow alum crystals at home
- How Microfishing Took the Angling World by (Very Small) Storm
- Embroidery animation by Alexis Sugden
- How Covid-19 helped redefined airborne transmission
All posts by Lenore Edman
Linkdump: April 2021
- Beatrice Finkelstein, the Woman Who Fed the Astronauts
- Bend-It: Design and Fabrication of Kinetic Wire Characters from Disney Research
- Vacuum tube 555 timer
- Mafia fugitive located via his youtube cooking videos
- Ghost Sign Map of the San Francisco Bay Area
- How a Glass Terrarium Changed the World
- A calculator zine inspired by Ken Shirriff reverse-engineering an early calculator
- Unusual Japanese Butter Tableware @ Core77, via The Prepared
Linkdump: March 2021
- Illusion art by Odeith
- You can help catalog UV fluorescent organisms on iNaturalist
- Early American Motorcycles Exhibit at the SFO Museum
- London bomb shelter agriculture and Paris underground parking garage mushroom farming
- A list of illegal 6502/6510 opcodes (via)
- Bangladesh revives production of traditional muslin
- Ice carousel in Roihuvuori, Finland (YouTube)
- Sushi made from polished stones
- Chain is the first episode in The Secret Life of Components, a new video series from Tim Hunkin
- The incredible boxes of Hock Wah Yeo, video games retail boxes of the 80s and 90s
- A Closer Look at the Mars Perseverance Rover’s Incredible Cameras
Lenore on Meet a Maker
I had the privilege of talking with Billie Ruben and Geeky Faye on Meet a Maker, and the show episode is now live. It was great fun to chat with them on all kinds of topics around making from sewing to 3D printing and even where they overlap. Thanks so much, Billie and Faye!
Featured Artist: Michelle Chandra
Michelle Chandra is an interactive and generative artist who currently works primarily with AxiDraw making often radially symmetric art reminiscent of spirograph drawings.
Her work can be found on instagram and twitter as well as at her website, Dirt Alley Design.
She wrote up an excellent article full of tips and tricks on how she draws generative art using the AxiDraw. She shares generous documentation on many of her explorations on her blog, which can be useful to anyone interested in generative art. Each post is chock full of explanations, such as this one on her favorite pens and techniques for alignment for multiple color plots. (I’m definitely biased, but “Should you buy a pen plotter?” won my heart.)
I enjoy her dramatic use of color, with deep fills or combinations of cyan, magenta and yellow that bleed into reds, greens and blues where they overlap.
She has prints available on her site, and many more beautiful artworks she shares there as well.
Thank you, Michelle, for sharing your art with us!
Linkdump: February 2021
- A look back at the beginnings of dam removal projects in the US
- A Site For Nutmeg Grater Collectors
- Bump (iOS) (android) is an app version of the mechanical Blip game
- The Signal Path looks inside the Starlink phased array dish (YouTube)
- Jane Zhang sings The Diva Dance from the Fifth Element (YouTube)
- Accent tour of English in North America (YouTube)
- YInMn is a new blue pigment that is becoming commercially available
- MOON in Real Time I: Four hours of video orbiting the moon in real time, compiled by Seán Doran (YouTube)
- Data analysis on 67 Years of Lego Sets
- Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester, 1954-1955
- Newly discovered “nano-chameleon” is world’s smallest known reptile
- How to Clear a Path Through 60 Feet of Snow, Japanese Style
- Humorous instructions for feeding Venus flytraps
Lenore on Hackster Cafe
Alex from Hackster invited me to join her on Hackster Cafe today! We had a wide ranging conversation about running a small business, projects and products, and the AxiDraw MiniKit 2. Thanks, Alex!
Custom aluminum Bulbdial Clock case
Guy made a custom clock case out of aluminum for our Bulbdial Clock kit. It turned out beautifully! There are some really nice pictures of the design and build process, so definitely go check out his post.
Thanks for sharing your build, Guy!
Linkdump: December 2020
- 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 real-life turbolifts).
- The Black-crowned Night-Heron is the official bird of Oakland
- anscombiser: An R package to create data sets that illustrate “the importance of using graphical displays in Statistics”
- A tweet led to a paper about galactic crepuscular rays
- A better air nozzle for better laser cutting
- More crepuscular critters that exhibit biofluorescence
- How push-latch mechanisms work, and how to make your own (YouTube)
- A big chain saw can cut through a big ship
Linkdump: November 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