• Inside the Pulsar Calculator watch from 1975
• Simrefinery recovered
• Putting the coronavirus under the microscope
• The helium shortage has ended, at least for now
• Ken Shirriff looks at the 8086 processor
• Strike a solder joint behind enemy lines
• Testing the Mars helicopter in a simulated martian atmosphere
• A project to make a DEC H-500 Computer Lab Reproduction
• Visualizing brain activity with an AxiDraw

• The real lord of the flies
• Learn python from the NSA
• Index Pick and Place, an open source pick and place machine. Video intro here.
• Matisse designed a chapel in Vence
• A fully automated bread production line (YouTube)
• A Roman villa mosaic floor has been found near Verona
• How to draw the Corona Virus
• From the first black band-aid (1998-2002) to Amazon and Target (starting in 2014)
• From CityLab, Your Maps of Life Under Lockdown

• “Do we want to get to the moon or not?” John C. Houbolt was responsible for the Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous plan
• A video comparison of different laser marking compounds for use with CO2 lasers
• Figures in the Sky: How cultures across the World have seen their myths and legends in the stars
• A wonderful little <$10 video game: A Short Hike
• Papercraft models of classic computers
• John Pound, the creator of Garbage Pail Kids is also a generative artist (via)
• Springer has made a set of books and articles available at no cost to help those affected by coronavirus lockdowns
• A clever linkage for a mechanical elbow (via Matt Siegel)

• Open source SVG emoji from Twitter
• 2-Bit Mario: A physical Mario Brothers game
• The most important device in the universe, built by prop designer John Zabrucky
• Video made from photos of Comet 67p taken by Rosetta
• A Conversation on Microbiomes mostly focused on the Sourdough Project
• Cat Coat Genetics 101: A Tweetorial
• Thermochromic 7-segment display
• Formlabs Form 3 Teardown by Bunnie Huang
• Life Under the Ice is Ariel Waldman‘s site documenting microscopic life in Antarctica
• A nicely done website of paper sizes
• Nikon Small World 2019 Photomicrography Competition Winners
• Patterned plywood speakers
• Plotting perlin spirals
• Pre-GPS automobile navigation system
• XYZen Garden Kit
• Inside the digital clock from a Soyuz spacecraft with Ken Shirriff
• The Newport Transporter Bridge (YouTube)
• Interesting dataset: Flagged and rejected vanity license plate applications from the California DMV
• Dark Horse Discord: a gaming chat platform and the future of work
• Machining a bamboo-styled pencil barrel on a lathe, from Lindsay Wilson
• Mapping cases of COVID-19

This is a demo board I made for some #flexures, some of which I have used for projects, others I just think are so cool. #lasercut #delrin pic.twitter.com/5Hdkc5TYJO

— Amy Qian (@amy_makes_stuff) October 28, 2019

• Expert teardown of the Logitech MX Master 3 mouse
• Saturn has 20 newly found moons and you can help name them
• Ken Thompson’s Unix password
• The Rise And Fall Of ‘Pinky And The Brain’
• Evolution of the scroll bar
• A circuit to let you plug in a battery either way
• BrachioGraph – an updated take on the TRS Drawbot
• Laser cut Delrin flexure demos

• Pricing Niche Products
• An illustrated guide to San Francisco’s hidden restaurants
• Area woman heads to town and impulse-buys entire bookstore.
• Sea urchins have teeth that sharpen themselves
• Prop designers wax nostalgic on the hardest props of their careers
• We could send a tiny spacecraft to visit Interstellar Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), but it isn’t easy
• An incredible Shirt-Pocket Sound Movie Camera prototype from 1976
• How one town’s restauranteros built an empire
• Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death

• Casting Glass from 3D Printed Molds
• Documentation on data storage and file formats
• Cats with Cameras
• Svg2Shenzhen: An Inkscape extension for exporting artwork as PCB graphics
• The “terrible” 3 cent MCU – a short survey of sub $0.10 microcontrollers.
• Sparktrola Tesla Coil Plasma Speaker
• Thermochromic temperature and humidity display
• Make your own GENIAC replica
• Carvone: One Molecule, Two Different Scents And Flavors
• hmm, a heightmap to 3D mesh utility.
• All about SpaceX’s Raptor engine by EveryDay Astronaut (YouTube)
• Keep your Tabagotchi happy by keeping fewer browser tabs open
• Why put googly eyes on robots?

• The Punjabi truck stops of America
• Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer
• NeverSSL: A surprisingly useful non-SSL web site
• Crashed plane located in a pub
• Doc Pop hired writers and artists on Fiverr to play a game of telephone
• How and Why Sunflowers Turn Their Golden Heads
• Secretly Public Doman highlights books of a certain age whose copyright was not renewed

• The curious case of Public Sans
• A mariachi cover of A-ha’s “Take on Me” (YouTube via Laughing Squid)
• Pea knives exist (via Rusty’s Electric Dreams)
• A video about HP’s first computer, the 2116A (YouTube)
• How “yo-yo” de-spin works for spacecraft (YouTube)
• What do mice do in zero-G?
• History of CNC machining, written for Bantam Tools by Goli Mohammadi: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
• Vienna Cemetery Introduces Funeral LEGO Sets
• The Soyuz Scrappers

• Chirping bird sculpture made from electronic components (one of many entries in the Hackaday Circuit Sculpture contest which recently ended)
• Glow-in-the-Dark Plotter Clock
• Fast HSV to RGB Conversion for small CPUs
• The Maraschino Mogul’s Secret Life
• Dissection fonts: Typefaces made of pieces that can be assembled into a square, from Erik Demaine Puzzle Font page
• It’s Time to Rethink Who’s Best Suited for Space Travel
• 3D printed Wire Spool Holder With Straightener
• Finding an earth rock on the moon
• Inside the Apollo Guidance Computer’s core memory from Ken Shirriff