• How Carob Traumatized a Generation
• How Christine Peterson coined the term ‘open source’
• OpenSC2K: An open source remake of SimCity 2000
• A deep dive into the history of the Automatic Pencil Sharpener Company (via @john_overholt)
• The ReCode Project is a community-driven effort to preserve computer art by translating it into a modern programming language
• Unfamiliar cat petting simulator
• The classic Handbook of Mathematical Functions by Abramowitz and Stegun has become the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions.
• Fabric linear motor
• Your data, on an 8-inch floppy disk
• A new proposal for distant a space telescope, using the sun as a gravitational lens to observe exoplanets
• System Bus Radio: A program to transit AM radio from computers and phones without radio transmitting hardware
• Photos of the SF Bay Area, taken from a U2 at the edge of space

• The Idiot’s Loop: Dropping a nuclear bomb with a backflip was a 1950’s US Air Force tactic.
• History of Philips’ Semiconductors in the 1950s
• Terry Gilliam reveals the secrets of Monty Python animation
• Vintage Computing for Trusted Radiation Measurements
• R.I.P. astronaut John Young, the first man to get yelled at for smuggling a sandwich into space
• Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on a 45 year old system
• The GRAY-1, “a homebrew CPU exclusively composed of memory”
• Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs
• BR9732: A virtual replica of Deckard’s apartment from Blade Runner
• MS Paint Enamel Pin. A Photoshop version is available as well.
• Fruit Tart Cat Bed (via Laughing Squid)
• Your candy wrappers are listening: Extracting audio from high-speed video of ordinary objects
• NASA’s IMAGE satellite — out of contact for 13 years — may have just been found awake by an amateur astronomer.

• Computing a world of snowflakes
• 6 Animatronic Eye Mechanisms You Can Download and 3D Print
• Parafilm: What is this thing? (YouTube)
• The colorful modern history of ancient crookneck watermelons
• The Boldport Club is a monthly electronic kit subscription
• The mathematics of the game 2048
• Why do asteroids explode high in the atmosphere?
• Stromatolites found alive, on land
• Here’s The Important Reason We Don’t Get Mad Chemistry Kits For Christmas Any More
• Reading Silicon: How to Reverse Engineer Integrated Circuits, a talk by Ken Shirriff at the 2016 Hackaday SuperConference.
• A Gorgeous—and Unsettling—Video of Evolution in Action
• The Mathematics of Popping Champagne Corks (YouTube)

• Fifty-three year old nuclear missile accident revealed
• Racetrack core sample: What 108 Years Of Repaving Looks Like Under Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s Asphalt
• The folks who make Generatively Designed Socks also made a Processing library for use with Google’s Quick, Draw! dataset
• MeatBagPnP – A tool to help you (the MeatBag) act as a pick and place machine
• Drawing from noise, and then making animated loopy GIFs from there.
• Usborne coding books, including some fantastic free-to-download 1980s computer books
• Micro Mouse: High speed robot mice solve mazes — No, the video isn’t sped up (YouTube).
• Kickstarting an all-new Vectrex Game Cartridge

ARとは関係ないけれど、首都大学東京のブースで見たゴミ箱が未来かっこいい。
これは素材や仕上げをこだわって、高級路線で行けば売れると思う。欲しいです。#DCEXPO pic.twitter.com/nE5rlY291y

— お休みさん@あんたまにあ (@zFdqQWPoR2tYmF7) October 29, 2017

• The cutest little ultrasonic iris trash can that you’ll ever see
• Minute physics on polarized filters and quantum mechanics
• CableEndy Cable-Driven Parallel Robot. (Bonus with tennis ball.)
• Pedro Medeiros is creating Pixel Art to tutorials on Patreon
• How the Soviet Union Snooped Waters for Enemy Subs—Without Sonar
• Primitive for macOS: Recreate your photos with vector-based geometric primitives.
• An interstellar visitor to our solar system
• Bunnie Studios: Why I’m Using Bitmarks on my Products

• Jenny Odell writes about the notorious “free watch”
• Radar Reveals Two Moons Orbiting Asteroid Florence
• Lens Rentals describes cameras and lenses they received damaged by the eclipse
• Scientific Books Of Yesteryear
• How to decode the images on the Voyager Golden Record
• The computer that made the CGI in Star Wars (with video)
• African cheetah enjoys grooming session from angry meerkat (YouTube)
• Download and 3D Print: Cassini spacecraft
• A LaTeX package for drawing ducks
• Comet turns out to be a binary asteroid
• Compound Camera: An inflatable compound-eye camera obscura
• Camera Movement in the silent film Wings (1927)