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Category Archives: Everything Else
Linkdump: April 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
Linkdump: March 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
Linkdump: January 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
Linkdump: December 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)
Linkdump: November 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
RealTalk Electronics: on tariffs
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!
Linkdump: October 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.
Linkdump: September 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)
Linkdump: July 2018
- 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
