- 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
Tag Archives: linkdump
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
Linkdump: September 2019
- 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
Linkdump: August 2019
- 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?
Linkdump: July 2019
- 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
Linkdump: April 2019
- 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
Linkdump: January 2019
- 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