Category Archives: Everything Else

Linkdump: March 2017

By Windell Oskay on March 31, 2017

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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.

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Linkdump: February 2017

By Windell Oskay on February 28, 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?

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Linkdump: January 2017

By Windell Oskay on January 31, 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

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Linkdump: December 2016

By Windell Oskay on December 30, 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.

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Linkdump: November 2016

By Windell Oskay on November 29, 2016

Matchbox cars: 1965 Factory tour video
Strain wave gearing (like Harmonic drive) as a Lego ball lift mechanism (Youtube)
Help crowdfund the Open-V, an open source RISC microcontroller
Disseminating the New Kilogram: An International ‘Dry Run’
“How we turned $140k on Kickstarter into $40k in debt. And how we broke even.”
Cat demonstrates Anamorphic 3D cube optical illusion (YouTube)
Shape Tiler application in Processing — tile shapes for use with WaterColorBot and other plotters.

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Linkdump: October 2016

By Windell Oskay on October 31, 2016

Spiny backed orb weaver making its web (Video by Rachel Barry Hobson).
Why Your Next iPhone Won’t be Ceramic.
A Wirebonding Factory Tour.
How gas station fuel pump nozzles work (YouTube).
Finalists of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.
Cardboard CNC Mill (YouTube).
Steve Jobs apparently hated function keys.
A programmable Stranger Things wall costume.

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Linkdump: September 2016

By Windell Oskay on September 30, 2016

The Art of Making a Nixie Tube (video)
How The World’s Most Beautiful Typeface Was Nearly Lost Forever
A photographic tour of a Soviet Typhoon class submarine
The BBC Creates Step-by-Step Instructions for Knitting the Iconic Dr. Who Scarf
Sonicare toothbrush teardown by Ken Shirriff (complete with an interesting footnote about Bluetooth)
Insulin pump teardown (video) by Mike’s Electric Stuff
Repair and restore video of a 1980’s Armatron toy robot arm
A series of ‘shopped pictures showing the relative scale of things
Noodlefeet the robot: Progress on the gripping, tasting, and drooling mechanisms
TED talk: An athlete uses physics to shatter world records in high jumping
Ghost Minitaur: A quadruped robot that can leap and open a door

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Linkdump: August 2016

By Windell Oskay on August 30, 2016

Reading makes you carsick because your brain thinks that it’s being poisoned.
“Freshly ground sprinkles“
High speed footage of past SpaceX missions
The Moral Machine: Try to think like an (ethical) self-driving car.
Hot-wheels POV video: As awesome as it sounds.
The GIF is dead. Long live the GIF.
Centro de Exposições do Centro Administrativo da Bahia: not a suspension bridge, but a suspension building. Exhibit hall in rising pyramid, auditorium in descending pyramid
Apollo CPU Core 1, implemented in open FPGA code
Tiny Caterpillar Robot Powered by Light
Reverse engineering a real candle
Teardown: Same Product, Fifty Years Apart by Steve Hoefer
The center of our solar system (its barycenter) is located outside of the sun for the next few years, thanks to the motion of the planets.
A Robotic ‘Burger Drop’ Machine to Capture One Slow Motion Shot

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Linkdump: July 2016

By Lenore Edman on July 31, 2016

San Francisco in Ruins by George R. Lawrence (larger version available at wikipedia)

Birds-eye-view of Ruins of San Francisco from Captive Airship (via @rrmutt) and description of the technique used: George Lawrence: A Giant in Kite Aerial Photography
LOGO Turtle for Processing by Leah Buechley
Buechley Woodworking
LEGO Calculating Machine
Luminary Pendant — a lovely little LED project
A giant scale model of the Mississippi river basin from the 1940s, used to design flood controls.
pcb-stackup: Create beautiful SVG stackups to preview circuit boards, starting from gerber data.
A creepy “lifelike” LEGO minifigure costume
Fontastic: A Processing library to create your own fonts.
A two-hour retrospective by the “Vid Kidz” who created the classic video games Stargate and Robotron: 2084

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Winners of the 2016 Adafruit Dronies

By Lenore Edman on July 20, 2016

The winners of the 2016 Adafruit Dronies have been announced! A couple of my favorites, like Droneboy above, made it to the top, and the entries ranged from funny to dizzying to beautiful. Head over and check out the winners– the videos provide an interesting example set of how drones are being used as a creative filmmaking tool. Thank you to all of the entries. It was an honor to help judge!

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