Category Archives: Everything Else

Linkdump: September 2017

By Windell Oskay on September 30, 2017

Compound camera: an inflatable camera obscura

Jenny Odell writes about the notorious “free watch”
Radar Reveals Two Moons Orbiting Asteroid Florence
Lens Rentals describes cameras and lenses they received damaged by the eclipse
Scientific Books Of Yesteryear
How to decode the images on the Voyager Golden Record
The computer that made the CGI in Star Wars (with video)
African cheetah enjoys grooming session from angry meerkat (YouTube)
Download and 3D Print: Cassini spacecraft
A LaTeX package for drawing ducks
Comet turns out to be a binary asteroid
Compound Camera: An inflatable compound-eye camera obscura
Camera Movement in the silent film Wings (1927)

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Cool Tools Diamond File Video

By Lenore Edman on September 28, 2017

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.

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Linkdump: August 2017

By Windell Oskay on August 31, 2017

Interior of bamboo gym inspired by lotus plant

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Linkdump: July 2017

By Windell Oskay on July 30, 2017

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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

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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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