- Video shows florescence, showing how electrical signals move down the leaves of sensitive plant Mimosa pudica
- Reenacting wear patterns on recreations of medieval book illustrations
- E-ZPass reduced the rate of premature births to mothers who live near toll booths by 9.1%
- How to understand cough medicines, including why some cough syrups don’t really have active ingredients
- Python 3.14 Will be Faster than C++
- OpenRCT2 an open-source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
- The Peking Duck Exemption
- How shaders render bottles in the game Half-Life: Alyx (YouTube)
- How one unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model
- About the “baseline” scene in Blade Runner 2049
- Fast line hiding with a WebGL shader for pen plots
- A linear stepper motor PCB racetrack
Tag Archives: linkdump
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?
Linkdump: April 2021
- Beatrice Finkelstein, the Woman Who Fed the Astronauts
- Bend-It: Design and Fabrication of Kinetic Wire Characters from Disney Research
- Vacuum tube 555 timer
- Mafia fugitive located via his youtube cooking videos
- Ghost Sign Map of the San Francisco Bay Area
- How a Glass Terrarium Changed the World
- A calculator zine inspired by Ken Shirriff reverse-engineering an early calculator
- Unusual Japanese Butter Tableware @ Core77, via The Prepared
Linkdump: March 2021
- Illusion art by Odeith
- You can help catalog UV fluorescent organisms on iNaturalist
- Early American Motorcycles Exhibit at the SFO Museum
- London bomb shelter agriculture and Paris underground parking garage mushroom farming
- A list of illegal 6502/6510 opcodes (via)
- Bangladesh revives production of traditional muslin
- Ice carousel in Roihuvuori, Finland (YouTube)
- Sushi made from polished stones
- Chain is the first episode in The Secret Life of Components, a new video series from Tim Hunkin
- The incredible boxes of Hock Wah Yeo, video games retail boxes of the 80s and 90s
- A Closer Look at the Mars Perseverance Rover’s Incredible Cameras
Linkdump: January 2021
- Using a Sharpie can make gummy metals easier to cut. And we’re learning why.
- Online Digi-Comp II emulator (via The Computer Museum)
- Analyzing Solorigate from the Microsoft Security blog
- Exploring with Microscopes + Drones: San Rafael Bay, part of a new video series by Ariel Waldman
- The story of a community cannery in Portland, Oregon
- Quickly Sketch Escher-type Repeats Using Inkscape
- Pompeiian snack bar with guard dog excavated
- Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
- The Fighter Plane That Shot Itself Down
- Desktop Wind Tunnel (via The Prepared)
- Monitoring municipal water quality with clams
- A green flash while observing Jupiter at SpaceWeather
- CMYK Embroidery
Linkdump: December 2020
- Miniature Notepad Drafting Arm
- What Happened to the Submarines at West Edmonton Mall? (YouTube)
- A history of San Francisco lighted house numbers
- Breadboard wristwatch with bubble display (via hackster.io)
- What shape of 3D printed titanium implants best fosters bone adhesion?
- Typeset in the Future on Star Trek: The Motion Picture (featuring the Blaster Beam and real-life turbolifts).
- The Black-crowned Night-Heron is the official bird of Oakland
- anscombiser: An R package to create data sets that illustrate “the importance of using graphical displays in Statistics”
- A tweet led to a paper about galactic crepuscular rays
- A better air nozzle for better laser cutting
- More crepuscular critters that exhibit biofluorescence
- How push-latch mechanisms work, and how to make your own (YouTube)
- A big chain saw can cut through a big ship
Linkdump: November 2020
- 7-segment magnet-driven ball clock
- Thermite Welding Train Tracks
- A review of the Apple Face Mask, via The Prepared
- A 3D printed infinity mirror Jeffries tube. Design available here.
- My Unlicensed Hovercraft Bar Is Technically Legal
- Moving a large building by walking
- What Victorian-era seaweed pressings reveal about our changing seas
- Biofluorescence in the platypus
Linkdump: September 2020
- Lego Interface UX
- Are there dead wasps in figs?
- ONO: How the Biggest 3D Printing Scam of All Time Unfolded
- This promotional video from Exco, a maker of aluminum extrusion dies, shows a lot of what goes into manufacturing an extrusion die
- New Supergiant Isopod Discovered
- Slide show of How Cork is Made
- Joe Rinaudo’s Fotoplayer Corona Virus Quarantine Concert. (A photoplayer is a specialized player piano used for scoring cartoons and silent movies.)
- You can apparently reverse engineer a key for a lock from the sound that the key makes upon insertion.
- A few of the 507 Mechanical Movements, beautifully 3D printed by Sam Schmitz
- A Refrigerator magnet clock
- The MINI PET DIY Computer Kit
- A demo of the Weav3r LEGO Loom by Jerry Nicholls showing how the heddles are set for each row for a zig-zag pattern. He’s gradually adding build instructions for it to his blog which holds a wealth of LEGO mechanisms.
Linkdump: August 2020
- ISS solar transit showing the SpaceX Crew Dragon and the Canadarm2 by Thierry Legault on YouTube
- A DIY Neon Pixel Display
- Ramelli’s Rotating Reader built by RIT students who called it a 16th century version of a multitabbed browser
- FBI Motivational Posters from WW2, obtained via FOIA request
- Graffiti covered e-bike, designed to blend in with urban architecture
- Why The Docking Adapters On The Space Station Are Shaped Oddly
- ThreadPlotter: punch needle embroidery on the AxiDraw
- How eggplant got its name
- The COMIX-35: an improved clone of the COMX-35 RCA 1802 home computer
- Circuit Scupltures by Leonardo Ulian (more on instagram)
- Kipp Bradford and Adam Savage build a Refrigerated Cooling Suit
- IMSAI 8080 replica front panel kit by The High Nibble