- 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
Tag Archives: linkdump
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
Linkdump: July 2020
- 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
Linkdump: May 2020
- 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
Linkdump: April 2020
- “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)
Linkdump: January 2020
- 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
Linkdump: October 2019
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