• Fifty-three year old nuclear missile accident revealed
• Racetrack core sample: What 108 Years Of Repaving Looks Like Under Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s Asphalt
• The folks who make Generatively Designed Socks also made a Processing library for use with Google’s Quick, Draw! dataset
• MeatBagPnP – A tool to help you (the MeatBag) act as a pick and place machine
• Drawing from noise, and then making animated loopy GIFs from there.
• Usborne coding books, including some fantastic free-to-download 1980s computer books
• Micro Mouse: High speed robot mice solve mazes — No, the video isn’t sped up (YouTube).
• Kickstarting an all-new Vectrex Game Cartridge

ARとは関係ないけれど、首都大学東京のブースで見たゴミ箱が未来かっこいい。
これは素材や仕上げをこだわって、高級路線で行けば売れると思う。欲しいです。#DCEXPO pic.twitter.com/nE5rlY291y

— お休みさん@あんたまにあ (@zFdqQWPoR2tYmF7) October 29, 2017

• The cutest little ultrasonic iris trash can that you’ll ever see
• Minute physics on polarized filters and quantum mechanics
• CableEndy Cable-Driven Parallel Robot. (Bonus with tennis ball.)
• Pedro Medeiros is creating Pixel Art to tutorials on Patreon
• How the Soviet Union Snooped Waters for Enemy Subs—Without Sonar
• Primitive for macOS: Recreate your photos with vector-based geometric primitives.
• An interstellar visitor to our solar system
• Bunnie Studios: Why I’m Using Bitmarks on my Products

• Jenny Odell writes about the notorious “free watch”
• Radar Reveals Two Moons Orbiting Asteroid Florence
• Lens Rentals describes cameras and lenses they received damaged by the eclipse
• Scientific Books Of Yesteryear
• How to decode the images on the Voyager Golden Record
• The computer that made the CGI in Star Wars (with video)
• African cheetah enjoys grooming session from angry meerkat (YouTube)
• Download and 3D Print: Cassini spacecraft
• A LaTeX package for drawing ducks
• Comet turns out to be a binary asteroid
• Compound Camera: An inflatable compound-eye camera obscura
• Camera Movement in the silent film Wings (1927)

• What happens inside the ISS during an orbit boost
• New Horizons’ Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting
• The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA’s Voyager Probes Across the Universe
• 15 Sorting Algorithms in 6 Minutes
• Project Subway NYC Subway X-Ray Area Maps
• Present-day devices as props on Star Trek
• 6502 cloud computing
• A Bamboo Gym Inspired by the Lotus Flower

• Clever street art by Tom Bob
• How to make PCB lapel pins
• Beautiful photos of a bicycle headbadge collection
• History of the Utah Teapot
• Should robot artists be given copyright protection?
• Inside Intel’s first product: the 3101 RAM chip held just 64 bits
• Hexadecimale kleurwoorden: words in Dutch that are valid CSS hex colors
• Using an X-ray synchrotron to reverse engineer silicon
• Biohackers, editing out genetic defects due to dog breeding

• Beautiful photos of playground equipment in Japan by photographer Kito Fujio
• The Earth Science Picture of the Day
• Sculptural synthesizers by Eirik Brandal
• Which real words are valid CSS hex colors?
• Choose your own adventure maps
• Lingua Franca : Six projects for the near future of the Arduino open source project
• Robot sumo: Tiny robots move really fast (YouTube)
• Braille Bricks: A campaign to produce Lego bricks with Braille dots
• Ikea bowl sets things on fire
• Animations that compare subway maps to geographical maps
• Trust me, I’m a scientist.: Making scientific data openly accessible builds trust

• 3D Scan to SVG to Plotter (by way of Blender)
• Reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound effect chip
• A collection of resources for making Awesome Generative Art
• American energy use in one diagram
• Video from 27c3: Reverse Engineering the 6502
• Helping one million developers exit Vim
• Dirty Decapping: A low-cost chip decapping service
• Testing a “Giger counter”
• Bread tag taxonomy: The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group

• Chronophotographs Capture Birds in Flight
• Watch 118 Bird Species Migrate Across a Map of the Western Hemisphere
• A Lizard With Scales That Behave Like a Computer Simulation
• Original Macintosh Lode Runner, in your browser
• Laser drawing stroboscopic patterns on an egg covered in photochromic paint (youtube)
• Conway’s game of life, emulated in Conway’s game of life
• Video game archaeologists exist
• “How Nature Documentaries Are Fake” A useful take on storytelling in documentaries.
• An epic teardown of the Juicero press

• morejpeg: Another microservice that you didn’t know you needed
• The Backyard Scientist: Pouring Molten salt into Water (YouTube)
• Did Voyager 1 capture an image of Enceladus’ plumes erupting?
• If the moon were one pixel
• Digital Clock in Conway’s Game of Life
• Make your own landed Falcon 9 model
• A Vector Field Playground
• Using a CNC mill to open a case of beer.
• 74181 ALU chip: how it works and why it’s so strange
• Classic Game Postmortem: Oregon Trail (YouTube)
• Original songs sampled by Daft Punk
• Scientific studies suggest that cats are nice.