Tag Archives: linkdump

Linkdump: August 2023

By Windell Oskay on August 31, 2023

• Space Elevator (Also, from the same site: Password game)
• The Amazing Story of How Philly Cheesesteaks Became Huge in Lahore, Pakistan
• Early computer art in the 50’s & 60’s
• Maryland License Plates Advertising Filipino Casino
• My Benihana, Myself
• How much does animation cost? A price guide
• Cats apparently recognize their names
• A rubber block that can count
• SmarterEveryDay takes a tour of a Progressive die stamping facility (YouTube)
• From back in 2018: DOOMBA: Automatically generate DOOM level maps for your house from Roomba tracking data
• The mystery of the Bloomfield bridge

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Linkdump: April 2023

By Windell Oskay on April 13, 2023

• The CRUMB Circuit Simulator, a breadboard simulator
• Deep Fried Coffee Beans
• Conserve the Sound: “Your Museum for endangered sounds.”
• Furby source code
• What is the price of a Big Mac across the country?
• Floppy disk costumes for SD cards
• De visdeurbel (Fish Doorbell; Dutch language.) When a fish in the canals needs the lock opened, you can send the lock keeper a photo to let them know.
• Near infrared, in situ imaging of chips: An inexpensive method to see inside certain types of integrated circuits.
• An Aperiodic Monotile, and a talk about it, from the National Museum of Mathematics.
• The Tabloid Programming languate, and an implementation in Racket.
• The Electronics Flea Market returns to Silicon Valley this weekend.

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Linkdump: November 2022

By Lenore Edman on November 21, 2022

• 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

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Linkdump: March 2022

By Lenore Edman on March 8, 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?

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Linkdump: December 2021

By Windell Oskay on December 29, 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?

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Linkdump: April 2021

By Lenore Edman on April 12, 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

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Linkdump: March 2021

By Lenore Edman on March 8, 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

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Linkdump: January 2021

By Windell Oskay on January 4, 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

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Linkdump: December 2020

By Lenore Edman on December 6, 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

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Linkdump: November 2020

By Lenore Edman on November 2, 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

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