- Inside a Flexible Circuit Board Factory in China (YouTube)
- Measurement of Galactic Neutral Hydrogen in Noisy Urban Environment Using Kitchenware
- Estimating the Nuclear Yield of the Davy Crockett Weapon
- A magnificent marble clock (YouTube): Pt 1, Pt 2
- John Cage – 4′ 33” Death Metal Cover by Dead Territory
- Understanding Quake’s Fast Inverse Square Root
- J. Kenji López-Alt looks at baked pasta made with soaking instead of boiling
- A Celebrity in Every Taxi: An oral history of NYC’s talking taxi program
- From Sky and Telescope: Hobby Killers: What telescopes not to buy
- Seeing the World through Your Eyes: Full scene reconstruction from eye reflections
- Scopin Sans: An open source typeface that renders text like serial data viewed on an oscilloscope
- A brief history of Nervous System’s puzzles
- McDonald’s Puppets teach how to cook Chicken McNuggets in in 1983 Training Video, via Laughing Squid
- From Lettering Guides to CNC Plotters: A Brief History of Technical Lettering Tools
- SparkFun now sells a Debugging Duck
- Trains designed to automatically break down, with hackers to the rescue.
Category Archives: Everything Else
Linkdump: August 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
Linkdump: April 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.
Linkdump: November 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
Open Circuits: Now available
Earlier this year, I wrote about my then-forthcoming book, Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components, co-written with our regular collaborator Eric Schlaepfer.
Open Circuits is a coffee table book full of close-up and cross-section photographs of everyday electronic components. And, it’s now shipping! As of today, it’s available in hardcover from your local bookstore, as well as to purchase online and in electronic versions.
We also just launched a new website for the book, with links of where you can purchase it as well as lengthy galleries of images from the book and of outake photos.
We put up a list of sellers on the website, including direct from No Starch and our own store, where signed copies are available.
Linkdump: July 2022
- Reversible sequin clock
- How a man discovered that his wife was world’s best Tetris player
- Origami Cafe is a virtual meeting spot for folders
- A youtube playlist of Calculating Device Demonstrations
- Animations embedded in 3D printing
- Big Clive tells us about the “Most deadly project on the internet“, high-voltage art, made with microwave oven transformers.
- Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm ever? Preprint
- Fossil crinoid with its tracks
- Edible tape for your burrito
- Open source design for a magnet and piezo based stick and slip micropositioner
- Robocop on set and getting suited up for the 1987 film.
- Spigot: A command-line streaming exact real calculator.
- The Julia Roberts paradox of Ocean’s Twelve
- Weaving book with integrated loom
- History of salt production in the South Bay and the current state of wetlands reclamation
Linkdump: March 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?
Linkdump: December 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?
Lenore on the Cool Tools Podcast
I was just on the Cool Tools podcast talking about some of my favorite tools, especially around cooking. I enjoyed talking with Kevin and Mark about tools that I use all the time and rely on.
I was also previously on the podcast in 2015.
Windell on the Cool Tools Podcast
Windell was just on the Cool Tools podcast talking about some of his recent favorite tools. These chats with Kevin Kelly and Mark Frauenfelder about common and esoteric tools are always engaging.
Windell was also previously on the podcast in 2015.