Cool Tools did a quick video review of the diamond file I recommended when I was on the podcast. I still carry it in my bag all the time and use it regularly.
Category Archives: Everything Else
Linkdump: August 2017
- What happens inside the ISS during an orbit boost
- New Horizons’ Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting
- The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA’s Voyager Probes Across the Universe
- 15 Sorting Algorithms in 6 Minutes
- Project Subway NYC Subway X-Ray Area Maps
- Present-day devices as props on Star Trek
- 6502 cloud computing
- A Bamboo Gym Inspired by the Lotus Flower
Linkdump: July 2017
- Clever street art by Tom Bob
- How to make PCB lapel pins
- Beautiful photos of a bicycle headbadge collection
- History of the Utah Teapot
- Should robot artists be given copyright protection?
- Inside Intel’s first product: the 3101 RAM chip held just 64 bits
- Hexadecimale kleurwoorden: words in Dutch that are valid CSS hex colors
- Using an X-ray synchrotron to reverse engineer silicon
- Biohackers, editing out genetic defects due to dog breeding
Linkdump: June 2017
- Beautiful photos of playground equipment in Japan by photographer Kito Fujio
- The Earth Science Picture of the Day
- Sculptural synthesizers by Eirik Brandal
- Which real words are valid CSS hex colors?
- Choose your own adventure maps
- Lingua Franca : Six projects for the near future of the Arduino open source project
- Robot sumo: Tiny robots move really fast (YouTube)
- Braille Bricks: A campaign to produce Lego bricks with Braille dots
- Ikea bowl sets things on fire
- Animations that compare subway maps to geographical maps
- Trust me, I’m a scientist.: Making scientific data openly accessible builds trust
Linkdump: May 2017
- 3D Scan to SVG to Plotter (by way of Blender)
- Reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound effect chip
- A collection of resources for making Awesome Generative Art
- American energy use in one diagram
- Video from 27c3: Reverse Engineering the 6502
- Helping one million developers exit Vim
- Dirty Decapping: A low-cost chip decapping service
- Testing a “Giger counter”
- Bread tag taxonomy: The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group
Linkdump: April 2017
- Chronophotographs Capture Birds in Flight
- Watch 118 Bird Species Migrate Across a Map of the Western Hemisphere
- A Lizard With Scales That Behave Like a Computer Simulation
- Original Macintosh Lode Runner, in your browser
- Laser drawing stroboscopic patterns on an egg covered in photochromic paint (youtube)
- Conway’s game of life, emulated in Conway’s game of life
- Video game archaeologists exist
- “How Nature Documentaries Are Fake” A useful take on storytelling in documentaries.
- An epic teardown of the Juicero press
Linkdump: March 2017
- morejpeg: Another microservice that you didn’t know you needed
- The Backyard Scientist: Pouring Molten salt into Water (YouTube)
- Did Voyager 1 capture an image of Enceladus’ plumes erupting?
- If the moon were one pixel
- Digital Clock in Conway’s Game of Life
- Make your own landed Falcon 9 model
- A Vector Field Playground
- Using a CNC mill to open a case of beer.
- 74181 ALU chip: how it works and why it’s so strange
- Classic Game Postmortem: Oregon Trail (YouTube)
- Original songs sampled by Daft Punk
- Scientific studies suggest that cats are nice.
Linkdump: February 2017
- Boris Karloff’s Guacamole Recipe
- Can you fake a TV Remote control with paper and a lighter? Probably not.
- EL wire Nixie Tube
- CatterPlots: Scatter plots, with cats as points
- Convert Inkscape SVG drawings to KiCad footprints
- Double pendulum with UV LED & GITD backdrop (Youtube)
- The Rotating Hallway Scene from 2001, stabilized
- A review of science books for kids, on pages 4-5 of the Reno News & Review Family Guide 2017 including The Annotated Build It Yourself Science Laboratory
- What’s in that Subway Oven Roasted Chicken Sandwich?
Linkdump: January 2017
- Cool drafting tools: the Keuffel & Esser Trammel Ellipsograph. (See also: 507 movements.)
- Just Add Water: The history of Sea Monkeys, dark side and all.
- Magica: A beautiful solenoid coil driven wooden clock
- An introductory servo control project with ROS, the Robot Operating System
- Dial-A-Grue: Text adventure games with a rotary dial phone
- Another take at weaving string art with a 3D printer
- VisiCut: a userfriendly tool for laser-cutting
- How Canned Mandarin Oranges are made: in Spain and China, and Japan
- The history of the MOS Commodore KIM-1 Computer in pictures
Linkdump: December 2016
- A jumping sun dog.
- Design and 3D print parametric battery holders.
- Code Combat: An open source programming game for learning how to code.
- 3D print your own (oversized) Curta Calculator.
- Why spaghetti breaks into 3 pieces, via finite-element simulation (YouTube).
- Inside the LM108 op amp on Ken Shirriff’s blog.
- A baby dinosaur tail, preserved in amber.
- Mike’s Electric Stuff tears down a $500k Genome sequencer (YouTube).
- The Brother Type-O-Graph pen plotter.
- If you don’t talk to your kids about quantum computing, who will? (SMBC Comics).
- Single-stroke fonts on the HP1345A vector display and in the movie WarGames (1983).
- How it’s made: Ribbon candy (YouTube, via Neatorama).
- Threadtone: Computational string art
- A sweater for your drone.
