Category Archives: Everything Else

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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Linkdump: November 2020

By Lenore Edman on November 2, 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

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Linkdump: October 2020

By Lenore Edman on October 5, 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

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Linkdump: September 2020

By Windell Oskay on September 1, 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.

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Linkdump: August 2020

By Windell Oskay on August 1, 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

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Linkdump: July 2020

By Windell Oskay on July 1, 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

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