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 them
• Ken Thompson’s Unix password
• The Rise And Fall Of ‘Pinky And The Brain’
• Evolution of the scroll bar
• A circuit to let you plug in a battery either way
• BrachioGraph – an updated take on the TRS Drawbot
• Laser cut Delrin flexure demos

• 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
• An incredible Shirt-Pocket Sound Movie Camera prototype from 1976
• How one town’s restauranteros built an empire
• Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death

• 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: One Molecule, Two Different Scents And Flavors
• hmm, a heightmap to 3D mesh utility.
• All about SpaceX’s Raptor engine by EveryDay Astronaut (YouTube)
• Keep your Tabagotchi happy by keeping fewer browser tabs open
• Why put googly eyes on robots?

• 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 certain age whose copyright was not renewed

• The curious case of Public Sans
• A mariachi cover of A-ha’s “Take on Me” (YouTube via Laughing Squid)
• Pea knives exist (via Rusty’s Electric Dreams)
• A video about HP’s first computer, the 2116A (YouTube)
• How “yo-yo” de-spin works for spacecraft (YouTube)
• What do mice do in zero-G?
• History of CNC machining, written for Bantam Tools by Goli Mohammadi: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
• Vienna Cemetery Introduces Funeral LEGO Sets
• The Soyuz Scrappers

• Chirping bird sculpture made from electronic components (one of many entries in the Hackaday Circuit Sculpture contest which recently ended)
• Glow-in-the-Dark Plotter Clock
• Fast HSV to RGB Conversion for small CPUs
• The Maraschino Mogul’s Secret Life
• Dissection fonts: Typefaces made of pieces that can be assembled into a square, from Erik Demaine Puzzle Font page
• It’s Time to Rethink Who’s Best Suited for Space Travel
• 3D printed Wire Spool Holder With Straightener
• Finding an earth rock on the moon
• Inside the Apollo Guidance Computer’s core memory from Ken Shirriff

• Pillows based on ant faces. Backstory here.
• The Titanic was on fire, before the iceberg.
• Forever Pizza: Real pizza, encased in acrylic (via Laughing Squid)
• Turn your cell phone into an Etch A Sketch with 3D printing
• On the design of the nacelle struts in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (via io9)
• How to Deal with Difficult People on Software Projects
• How restaurants got so loud
• Giant New Salamander Species Discovered in Florida and Alabama
• A map of locations from which you can see the sun set right in the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge
• 3D printed 7-segment clock
• The Best Laid Tracks: Stories of San Francisco’s ghost stations
• Spotify player for the Mac SE/30
• Miniature Japanese Furniture for Cats
• Millitext: Subpixel encoding and a one-pixel-wide font
• A controlled medical study on the effectiveness of parachutes in preventing injury
• A Primer on Bézier Curves
• A collection of mechanical Keyswitch datasheets from keyboard.io
• Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES
• The best fossilized mummified dinosaur ever (there’s also one named after Zuul)