DIYODE Magazine is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 555 and used our Three Fives Kit for an accompanying build.
It’s awesome to see this workhorse of a chip getting well-deserved attention, and we love seeing our kit included in the festivities.AxiDraw used for developing techniques for bioprinting
Scientists working on developing techniques for bioprinting used the AxiDraw with a syringe in place of a pen as part of their experimental setup. They recently published an article they shared with us, saying,
We finally achieved what we planned with the Axidraw. It worked well! We made small patterns of hydrogel, millimetric, that we intend to use for seeding living cells.
It is always exciting for us to see people finding new uses for the AxiDraw. Thank you to Dr. Fitremann for sharing your results with us!
Linkdump: March 2022
- Signal Strength: NYC subway musicians collaborating via wifi
- Okuda Hiroko: The Casio Employee Behind the “Sleng Teng” Riddim that Revolutionized Reggae. (Supplementary music)
- A preprint of an academic overview of Culinary Fluid Dynamics
- Sponge communities thriving by consuming an extinct ecosystem on the peak of a dead underwater Arctic volcano
- A new KIM-1 simulator
- Bunnie Studios Fixing a Tiny Corner of the Supply Chain
- metalnes: Transistor level Nintendo simulator
- Dumping firmware with a 555
- DIY cryogenic Multi-Layer Insulation
- Parasnailing (Reddit): Aquarium snails, “falling with style”
- How does a player piano work? (YouTube), via the Ironic Sans newsletter
- Have you ever wondered how manhole covers are tested for endurance?
Linkdump: December 2021
- Inkarnate: RPG-oriented map building tool. (Via Elecia White)
- Unisexual salamanders perform kleptogenesis, stealing other species sperm packets
- Larson Camouflage is a pioneer in cell tower disguises
- Fossilized reefs in the Nevada Desert
- Ten years after the original, a new 555 Contest from Hackaday
- Dekay King’s Innovative Shop Furniture
- TinyNES: Classic NES games on open source hardware
- Animated Reconstruction of the 1915 Ford Model T Assembly Line
- Was NASA’s Historic Leader James Webb a Bigot?
Lenore on the Cool Tools Podcast
I was just on the Cool Tools podcast talking about some of my favorite tools, especially around cooking. I enjoyed talking with Kevin and Mark about tools that I use all the time and rely on.
I was also previously on the podcast in 2015.
Windell on the Cool Tools Podcast
Windell was just on the Cool Tools podcast talking about some of his recent favorite tools. These chats with Kevin Kelly and Mark Frauenfelder about common and esoteric tools are always engaging.
Windell was also previously on the podcast in 2015.
Linkdump: November 2021
- LingYourLanguage is a game for identifying languages from short recordings
- IBM Computing Cheese Cutter Restoration (YouTube)
- Traditional rope making from vegetable fibers to braiding (YouTube)
- DIY 1:150 micro RC Car (YouTube)
- Velvetyne Type Foundry, designing and distributing free and open source typefaces
- The beautiful Mushroom Color Atlas catalogs fungi used for dyeing
- Command not found: Quick reference for installing software packages on Linux and Mac
- Pen plotters: not just output devices. Using a vintage HP Drafting Sight to measure graphical data
- Remove duplicate lines: An Inkscape extension that, uh, removes duplicate lines
- How to Grow Sodium Chloride Crystals at Home
Halloween Project Archive
It’s been a crazy year and Halloween has snuck up on us again! Are you ready to get in the Halloween spirit? Want some spooky snacks? Is it not Halloween for you if there isn’t pumpkin carving? Head over to the Halloween Project Archives for inspiration and ideas.
Halloween is one of our favorite holidays, and … we’ve organized dozens of our Halloween projects into categories: costumes, pumpkins, decor and food.
Linkdump: September 2021
- Source code for the famous Williams arcade game Defender
- Nanostructured materials may provide lightweight armor against microparticle impacts
- SVGnest: Open source SVG nesting software
- Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device Simulator
- Shark spiral intestines may operate as Tesla valves
- One Man’s Amazing Journey to the Center of the Bowling Ball
- Designing a “magic window” caustic image device
- Inside the MK-35D Soviet school calculator
- Cell Biology Candy on Kickstarter by Kristin Henry
- Beatboxing in an MRI (YouTube)
Linkdump: July 2021
- Antique Fractal Vise Restoration
- Acoustic tissue manipulation (and other sound-related research at Stanford)
- Microbes are being used to stop mosquitos from spreading the virus that causes dengue fever
- The first integrated circuits to orbit Earth
- The 3 Simple Rules That Underscore the Danger of Delta
- 3D printable fractal vise @ thingiverse.
- Quantum Computer meets Pen Plotter
- BBC Micro Bot: A gallery of tweet-sized programs written in BBC BASIC
- Pottery Sherd Cookies