Category Archives: Everything Else

Linkdump: January 2021

By Windell Oskay on January 4, 2021

• 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
• Quickly Sketch Escher-type Repeats Using Inkscape
• Pompeiian snack bar with guard dog excavated
• Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
• The Fighter Plane That Shot Itself Down
• Desktop Wind Tunnel (via The Prepared)
• Monitoring municipal water quality with clams
• A green flash while observing Jupiter at SpaceWeather
• CMYK Embroidery

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Linkdump: December 2020

By Lenore Edman on December 6, 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

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Linkdump: November 2020

By Lenore Edman on November 2, 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

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Linkdump: October 2020

By Lenore Edman on October 5, 2020

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• “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
• 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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