Category Archives: Everything Else

Linkdump: November 2020

By Lenore Edman on November 2, 2020

Platypus specimens under various lighting conditions

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

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Linkdump: October 2020

By Lenore Edman on October 5, 2020

model airplane sitting on map next to sprue card of model parts

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.
Musings on maker businesses: Makers in the Mittelstand
Moon behind the NG-14 Antares launch
Models of sprue card kits for quick 3D printing, like this DH.98 Mosquito
What happens when an architect sees the movie “Parasite”
Goodyear’s Illuminated Tires

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Linkdump: September 2020

By Windell Oskay on September 1, 2020

Anterior view of Bathynomus raksasa, a new species of giant isopod (Photo: SJADES 2018)

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 Fotoplayer Corona Virus Quarantine Concert. (A photoplayer is a specialized player piano used for scoring cartoons and silent movies.)
You can apparently reverse engineer a key for a lock from the sound that the key makes upon insertion.
A few of the 507 Mechanical Movements, beautifully 3D printed by Sam Schmitz
A Refrigerator magnet clock
The MINI PET DIY Computer Kit
A demo of the Weav3r LEGO Loom by Jerry Nicholls showing how the heddles are set for each row for a zig-zag pattern. He’s gradually adding build instructions for it to his blog which holds a wealth of LEGO mechanisms.

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Linkdump: August 2020

By Windell Oskay on August 1, 2020

Microchip synapses 29 – Between the now and the infinite by LEONARDO ULIAN

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 with urban architecture
Why The Docking Adapters On The Space Station Are Shaped Oddly
ThreadPlotter: punch needle embroidery on the AxiDraw
How eggplant got its name
The COMIX-35: an improved clone of the COMX-35 RCA 1802 home computer
Circuit Scupltures by Leonardo Ulian (more on instagram)
Kipp Bradford and Adam Savage build a Refrigerated Cooling Suit
IMSAI 8080 replica front panel kit by The High Nibble

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Linkdump: July 2020

By Windell Oskay on July 1, 2020

Hand drawn flex PCB with wirebonds and soldered components

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 Lab Reproduction
Visualizing brain activity with an AxiDraw

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Linkdump: May 2020

By Windell Oskay on May 30, 2020

Map in coronal frame with bird pertching

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 the first black band-aid (1998-2002) to Amazon and Target (starting in 2014)
From CityLab, Your Maps of Life Under Lockdown

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Linkdump: April 2020

By Windell Oskay on April 30, 2020

Illustration of spacecraft and orbits for lunar landing

“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 video game: A Short Hike
Papercraft models of classic computers
John Pound, the creator of Garbage Pail Kids is also a generative artist (via)
Springer has made a set of books and articles available at no cost to help those affected by coronavirus lockdowns
A clever linkage for a mechanical elbow (via Matt Siegel)

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Linkdump: March 2020

By Lenore Edman on March 31, 2020

Dial Indicator Clock

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 kits
How 3M rapidly scaled mask production
US National Institutes of Health 3D print exchange
Projected hospital resource use in COVID-19
Meet the doctor who ordered the Bay Area’s coronavirus lockdown, the first in the U.S.

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Linkdump: January 2020

By Windell Oskay on January 29, 2020

PCBs swung out on wiring harness acting as hinge or book spine

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
Formlabs Form 3 Teardown by Bunnie Huang
Life Under the Ice is Ariel Waldman‘s site documenting microscopic life in Antarctica
A nicely done website of paper sizes
Nikon Small World 2019 Photomicrography Competition Winners
Patterned plywood speakers
Plotting perlin spirals
Pre-GPS automobile navigation system
XYZen Garden Kit
Inside the digital clock from a Soyuz spacecraft with Ken Shirriff
The Newport Transporter Bridge (YouTube)
Interesting dataset: Flagged and rejected vanity license plate applications from the California DMV
Dark Horse Discord: a gaming chat platform and the future of work
Machining a bamboo-styled pencil barrel on a lathe, from Lindsay Wilson
Mapping cases of COVID-19

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Windell and Lenore on the Embedded.fm podcast

By Lenore Edman on January 16, 2020

Hilton's Aeolid

Elecia and Chris of Embedded.fm invited us to come back on the show for episode 317: WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY DISINTEGRATED?. We also had the added enticement of a low tide adventure after recording.

Lenore had been on the show back in 2014 for episode 40: MWAHAHA SESSION, and Windell was on the following year when The Annotated Build It Yourself Science Laboratory was published for episode 124: PLEASE DON’T LIGHT YOURSELF ON FIRE.

We enjoyed the conversation immensely. We wandered from talking about our kits, to plotter art, to PCB art, even to seaweed. The tide pooling afterwards was wonderful as well!

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