Category Archives: Everything Else

Linkdump: July 2017

By Windell Oskay on July 30, 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

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Linkdump: June 2017

By Windell Oskay on June 29, 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

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Linkdump: May 2017

By Windell Oskay on May 29, 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

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Linkdump: April 2017

By Windell Oskay on April 29, 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

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Linkdump: March 2017

By Windell Oskay on March 31, 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.

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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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