Category Archives: Everything Else

Linkdump: November 2021

By Lenore Edman on November 19, 2021

• LingYourLanguage is a game for identifying languages from short recordings
• IBM Computing Cheese Cutter Restoration (YouTube)
• Traditional rope making from vegetable fibers to braiding (YouTube)
• DIY 1:150 micro RC Car (YouTube)
• Velvetyne Type Foundry, designing and distributing free and open source typefaces
• The beautiful Mushroom Color Atlas catalogs fungi used for dyeing
• Command not found: Quick reference for installing software packages on Linux and Mac
• Pen plotters: not just output devices. Using a vintage HP Drafting Sight to measure graphical data
• Remove duplicate lines: An Inkscape extension that, uh, removes duplicate lines
• How to Grow Sodium Chloride Crystals at Home

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Linkdump: September 2021

By Lenore Edman on September 10, 2021

• Source code for the famous Williams arcade game Defender
• Nanostructured materials may provide lightweight armor against microparticle impacts
• SVGnest: Open source SVG nesting software
• Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device Simulator
• Shark spiral intestines may operate as Tesla valves
• One Man’s Amazing Journey to the Center of the Bowling Ball
• Designing a “magic window” caustic image device
• Inside the MK-35D Soviet school calculator
• Cell Biology Candy on Kickstarter by Kristin Henry
• Beatboxing in an MRI (YouTube)

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Linkdump: July 2021

By Lenore Edman on July 14, 2021

• Antique Fractal Vise Restoration
• Acoustic tissue manipulation (and other sound-related research at Stanford)
• Microbes are being used to stop mosquitos from spreading the virus that causes dengue fever
• The first integrated circuits to orbit Earth
• The 3 Simple Rules That Underscore the Danger of Delta
• 3D printable fractal vise @ thingiverse.
• Quantum Computer meets Pen Plotter
• BBC Micro Bot: A gallery of tweet-sized programs written in BBC BASIC
• Pottery Sherd Cookies

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Linkdump: June 2021

By Lenore Edman on June 21, 2021

• Quiltimation is a quilted animation of the Muybridge horse photos (via JS)
• Clocko is a font that uses ligatures to set the positions of the hands of a clockface (via Nick)
• Lockdown, a sculpture by Nemo Gould
• First Chips On The Giant Cincinnati Milling Machine (YouTube)
• The National Audubon Society clarifies the Difference Between a ‘Borb’ and a ‘Floof’
• Tools, Tricks, and Hacks: Exploring Novel Digital Fabrication Workflows on #PlotterTwitter (YouTube)
• An optic to replace space and its application towards ultra-thin imaging systems
• The Fundamental Question of the Pandemic is Shifting
• Still File: Photographs recreating computer renderings as physical scenes
• American grown truffle breakthrough

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Linkdump: May 2021

By Lenore Edman on May 14, 2021

• Interactive Conductive Thread Art (YouTube)
• Stenophylla: coffee for a warmer climate
• A 142 year old experiment on seed viability
• How to grow alum crystals at home
• How Microfishing Took the Angling World by (Very Small) Storm
• Embroidery animation by Alexis Sugden
• How Covid-19 helped redefined airborne transmission

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Linkdump: April 2021

By Lenore Edman on April 12, 2021

• Beatrice Finkelstein, the Woman Who Fed the Astronauts
• Bend-It: Design and Fabrication of Kinetic Wire Characters from Disney Research
• Vacuum tube 555 timer
• Mafia fugitive located via his youtube cooking videos
• Ghost Sign Map of the San Francisco Bay Area
• How a Glass Terrarium Changed the World
• A calculator zine inspired by Ken Shirriff reverse-engineering an early calculator
• Unusual Japanese Butter Tableware @ Core77, via The Prepared

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Linkdump: March 2021

By Lenore Edman on March 8, 2021

• Illusion art by Odeith
• You can help catalog UV fluorescent organisms on iNaturalist
• Early American Motorcycles Exhibit at the SFO Museum
• London bomb shelter agriculture and Paris underground parking garage mushroom farming
• A list of illegal 6502/6510 opcodes (via)
• Bangladesh revives production of traditional muslin
• Ice carousel in Roihuvuori, Finland (YouTube)
• Sushi made from polished stones
• Chain is the first episode in The Secret Life of Components, a new video series from Tim Hunkin
• The incredible boxes of Hock Wah Yeo, video games retail boxes of the 80s and 90s
• A Closer Look at the Mars Perseverance Rover’s Incredible Cameras

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Linkdump: February 2021

By Lenore Edman on February 3, 2021

• A look back at the beginnings of dam removal projects in the US
• A Site For Nutmeg Grater Collectors
• Bump (iOS) (android) is an app version of the mechanical Blip game
• The Signal Path looks inside the Starlink phased array dish (YouTube)
• Jane Zhang sings The Diva Dance from the Fifth Element (YouTube)
• Accent tour of English in North America (YouTube)
• YInMn is a new blue pigment that is becoming commercially available
• MOON in Real Time I: Four hours of video orbiting the moon in real time, compiled by Seán Doran (YouTube)
• Data analysis on 67 Years of Lego Sets
• Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester, 1954-1955
• Newly discovered “nano-chameleon” is world’s smallest known reptile
• How to Clear a Path Through 60 Feet of Snow, Japanese Style
• Humorous instructions for feeding Venus flytraps

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Linkdump: January 2021

By Windell Oskay on January 4, 2021

• 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

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Linkdump: December 2020

By Lenore Edman on December 6, 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

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