Category Archives: Everything Else

Linkdump: April 2019

By Lenore Edman on April 26, 2019

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

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Linkdump: March 2019

By Lenore Edman on March 31, 2019

The Use of a Cosmograph to make a Sankey Flow Diagram
An interview with SFO’s museum program curator Nicole Mullen
What Finally Killed AirPower
Build a Lego Launch Umbilical Tower for your Saturn V
Lessons learned from the Prince of Persia source code
How Banksy authenticates his work
DIY tiny landing barge for your vertical-landing drones and rockets
Sealed Cache of Moon Rocks to Be Opened by NASA
Hydraulic press versus candles: An unfair but very satisfying fight

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Linkdump: January 2019

By Lenore Edman on January 31, 2019

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

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Linkdump: December 2018

By Lenore Edman on December 30, 2018

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)

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Linkdump: November 2018

By Windell Oskay on November 30, 2018

Paper Pulp 3D Printer
Jackie Speier on Surviving Jonestown
Puzzle Montage Art by Tim Klein
London Tube Cutaways
Why your mental map of the world is (probably) wrong
Rare microbes lead scientists to discover new branch on the tree of life
OSH Park launched a snazzy new Flex PCB service
The Lunar Swirl
Siser EasyWeed, a laser-friendly, vinyl-cutter-friendly iron-on material. Neat.
The fake rolex of canned tomatoes
Tymkrs and the Art of Circuitry
Retro tees at Radio Shack
Screen printed Circuit Portraits

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RealTalk Electronics: on tariffs

By Lenore Edman on November 21, 2018

The Supplyframe Magazine RealTalk Electronics was released at the Hackaday Superconference.

It includes the article State of the Electronics Trade War which we contributed to.

It’s awesome to be included in this group of authors!

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Linkdump: October 2018

By Lenore Edman on October 30, 2018

Radio waves from our galaxy, the Milky Way, reflecting off the surface of the Moon.
VFX Artist Reveals the Relative Sizes of Stars.
The Forgotten Cold War Plan That Put a Ring of Copper Around the Earth.
Two bits per transistor: high-density ROM in Intel’s 8087 floating point chip.
The Chinese Mountain Cat.
Stammer: A Stamp Hammer.
Musical aside: The Cure, in their very first TV performance, played an early version of A Forest in 1979.
Additive Pens: 3D printed fountain pens.
DIY Radio Telescope.
Textbook Crosswind Landing by a 747 (Youtube).
The textbook Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To Implementation, by Matt Pharr, Wenzel Jakob, and Greg Humphreys, is now free to read online.
3D print your own Think-a-Dot.
Fold N Fly: A database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions.
᚛ᚈᚑᚋ ᚄᚉᚑᚈᚈ᚜ and ᚛ᚑᚌᚐᚋ᚜: The Ogham Space Mark.
Hobby servos converted to 3D printed linear actuators.
StringyPlotter: A program to produce continuous line drawings from black and white bitmap images.

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Linkdump: September 2018

By Windell Oskay on September 29, 2018

Dynamic liquefaction sinks ships.
A Homemade Engraving Pantograph (YouTube).
Metal casting at home with lost PLA and green sand.
How to pick up a cat like a pro (YouTube, via Boing Boing).
Coffee Candy, Ranked.
Mug-O-Matic: A different geometry of mug plotter.
Mathematical patterns that eventually fail.
Murdered man’s body found after tree grew from seed in his stomach.
DIY Deep Sea Dropcam.
A curious theory about the first recipe involving tomatoes.
3D print your own Floppy disk construction kit.
Cuisine Ingredients: Statistical analysis of ingredients
A CNC flat coil winder
Is it possible to make a laser out of wood?
Understanding user support systems in open source.
Telescope Building with John Dobson — How to build a Dobsonian telescope (YouTube)

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Linkdump: July 2018

By Windell Oskay on July 29, 2018

SMT LED sitting on mirror to show directional marking on component underside

Inkstitch An embroidery extension for Inkscape
Itty Bitty Sites
Inkscape Circuit Symbols
Disney releases digital models: an interesting data set including the Moana island.
The Big Internet Math-Off
A clever trick for seeing the orientation of SMD LEDs
brow.sh: A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers
The Silicon Graphics typeface collection
Designing and fabricating roll cakes with custom cross-section graphics.
Chess + Rogue = Chogue
The COSMAC Elf, a classic micro computer based on the RCA CDP1802.
Sometimes TLDs go away
Stencilify: A helper tool for laser cutting, which remove “islands” from text.
Think everyone died young in ancient societies? Think again
A 13,235-Mile Road Trip for 70-Degree Weather
Build a mini pinball machine out of Lego
Juvenile eastern hognose snake plays dead (YouTube)
Wensleydale: Cabinet designs for 3D printers and small CNC machines
Calculator Out of Roller Coasters in RollerCoaster Tycoon

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Linkdump: June 2018

By Lenore Edman on June 30, 2018

The Hess Triangle: A tiny private plot of land in NYC
Game Boy Camera Canon EF Lens Mount
A Fourier Synthesis Character Generator
Sampling whale blows via drone
The Colonels: In praise of the ordinary night heron
The Land Before Binary
Daniel Mercadante and his rainbow roads
Play Robot Odyssey — a computer game about digital logic from 1984 — online, ported by Micah Elizabeth Scott
Erosion on the moon?
The archeological contents of an Amsterdam river bed

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