- 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
Category Archives: Everything Else
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
Linkdump: October 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
Linkdump: September 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.
Linkdump: August 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
Linkdump: July 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
Linkdump: May 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
Linkdump: April 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)
Linkdump: March 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.