Category Archives: Everything Else

Linkdump: September 2019

By Lenore Edman on September 30, 2019

Sea urchin teeth

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

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Linkdump: August 2019

By Lenore Edman on August 30, 2019

A googly eyed robot in a library

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?

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Evil Mad Scientist Profile on the Make Blog

By Lenore Edman on August 27, 2019

Windell and Lenore with a Maker Faire background and header that says

Make Magazine has been running a great series of maker spotlights and profiles of maker businesses. We were excited to be interviewed for a profile ourselves, and you can read it on the Make blog now!

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Linkdump: July 2019

By Lenore Edman on July 31, 2019

Airplane in a brewpub

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

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What’s in Lenore’s Bag?

By Lenore Edman on July 24, 2019

Several items (salt tin, USB key, ear plugs, key chain) placed on a red bag with black cat print

I’m the subject of today’s issue of the What’s in my bag? newsletter! I enjoy this newsletter, which peeks into the kinds of things people carry around and use on a regular basis.

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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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