• Reading makes you carsick because your brain thinks that it’s being poisoned.
• “Freshly ground sprinkles“
• High speed footage of past SpaceX missions
• The Moral Machine: Try to think like an (ethical) self-driving car.
• Hot-wheels POV video: As awesome as it sounds.
• The GIF is dead. Long live the GIF.
• Centro de Exposições do Centro Administrativo da Bahia: not a suspension bridge, but a suspension building. Exhibit hall in rising pyramid, auditorium in descending pyramid
• Apollo CPU Core 1, implemented in open FPGA code
• Tiny Caterpillar Robot Powered by Light
• Reverse engineering a real candle
• Teardown: Same Product, Fifty Years Apart by Steve Hoefer
• The center of our solar system (its barycenter) is located outside of the sun for the next few years, thanks to the motion of the planets.
• A Robotic ‘Burger Drop’ Machine to Capture One Slow Motion Shot

• A tour of the MegaProcessor (YouTube)
• Inside the tiny RFID chip that runs San Francisco’s “Bay to Breakers” race
• Inkscape extension: Trace along centerlines
• A 3D-printed light-based zoetrope
• Dinosaur-era feathers, preserved in amber.
• Feynman diagram sculptures by Edward Tufte
• Schematics and manuals for the 1979 Asteroids video game cabinet
• Fliers for a Father’s Day Sale, from Obvious Plant.
• Dashcam footage: Driving Around San Francisco in 1953 (YouTube)
• NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter: Orbit insertion as a dramatic movie trailer.

• Mars is currently making its closest approach to Earth.
  Here are some viewing tips.
• Mining platinum from the roadside (YouTube)
• Crowdfunding a book about The Secret History of Mac Gaming
• How it’s made: “Long Eggs” (YouTube, german language)
• The Cattle Prod Selfie Stick
• Cute japanese bags, modeled on deep sea creatures
• Radio Shack to return once more?
• Converting stepper motors into industrial servo motors
• Camera tests for the Muppet Movie in 1979 (YouTube)

• Voice recognition + Smith-Corona typewriter + servo motors: A retro-futuristic dictation machine.
• Spinning clay, from the perspective of the pottery wheel
• The fastest manmade object (ignoring our fastest space probes)? Possibly a nuclear-powered manhole cover. (And, quite possibly not.)
• Bunnie Huang is crowdfunding A sourcing guide to electronics in Shenzhen
• Teletubbies in Black and White, Set to Joy Division
• Experimental Dadaist Music
• DIY Automated Optical Inspection for circuit boards
• Web Equation: Sketch an equation, get LaTeX output.
• Visions of the Future, a set of space travel posters from JPL
• John Calhoun has released the source code for his classic Mac games Glider 4/Pro, Pararena II, and Glypha III.

• Is there anything that can set sand on fire? Yes.
• Raccoon vs Cotton Candy (via BoingBoing)
• That’s not a PCB (Designs that try to look like printed circuit boards, yet fail)
• Export 3D object faces from Sketchup to 2D SVG data for laser cutting
• The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene
• A Neptune-sized planet beyond Pluto? (And, why you should be skeptical.)
• A notable post-mortem of the Zano Kickstarter campaign
• SVG Nest: Open source SVG shape nesting
• Inside joke brought brilliantly to a comedy stage (Act 2: starts at 42:25)
• What makes a safe hoverboard?

Image: Chipworks, via iFixit

• Pop Sonnets (also available in book form).
• Highly satisfactory video of a fiberglass braiding machine.
• Adorably Cute Xenomorphs, the book.
• Lego models of Minimoog synths
• Sundial gnomon design with digital readout shadow
• Designing and prototyping a resin-molded wallet
• German school kids sing We are the Robots (youtube)
• Mega-Processor (as opposed to Microprocessor)
• TIFU by using Math.random()
• The Jitterbox (youtube), an example of an auxetic metamaterial: when you pull on it, it expands in all directions.
• The Tamagotchi Singularity.  Related: View the Tama-hive
• Ken Shirriff’s great teardown of an Apple laptop charger
• Mechanical Techno Demonstration (youtube)
• MAME for Vectrex, by Trammell Hudson. (Also: Tennis For Two.)

• Video: How Moroccan Zellij tile mosaics are made.
• avrgirl-arduino: Upload code to Arduino boards with NodeJS.
• Plaid fruit leather.
• A maglev toy train – fine, fast, and floating
• MeowCAD: Open source, online EDA tool for designing circuit boards
• Doc Pop’s Glitch Socks.
• Glitch Architecture (via Rusty Blazenhoff)
• Glitch Furniture (via Doc Pop)
• Mechanical Hummingbird (via @Grathio) More info here.
• Photos from inside an abandoned Soviet Buran space shuttle hanger. [Translated link via Google.] More about Buran here.
• Radio astronomy and Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover: Part 1 (the origin story) and Part 2 (the science story).
• EMV (“Chip and pin”) smart cards: Not as secure as one might hope.
• An Interview with Fran Blanche of Frantone Electronics.
• A new species of Galapagos Tortoise has been discovered.
• CatsISUOTTATFO: Videos of cats inadvertently swatting unknown objects towards themselves and then freaking out (Reddit).
• Masterlist: A curated gallery of McMaster-Carr products (Via Core77).

• Little Planet Factory: 3D printed models of planets and other bodies in our solar system
• Why you should use a resistor with your LEDs
• Smoke & Flame: Finely-crafted artisanal firewood.
• To Scale: The Solar System
• Twitter feed devoted to John Conway’s Game of Life
• Turtlestitch: A block-based (scratch-like) educational programming language for embroidery machines.
• Cookies too big for milk glass? No problem (to a machinist). (YouTube)
• A modern serially controlled 64 bit magnetic core memory
• Netflix goes DIY with “The Switch“
• More from OSHWA about OSHW certification
• A touch-activated blinky badge “how to solder” project
• “That time we almost nuked North Carolina” (Goldsboro, 1961)

• Vintage Computer Inspired Soaps
• Vintage Computer Soap
• Don’t worry, it’s just ESD! (Electrostatic Discharge) (YouTube)
• CNC Toolkit: Free CAM tools for 5-axis machining
• Dear guy who just made my burrito (warning: contains strong language)
• Old-school Scientific Pen Plotter Teardown
• Inside a vintage core memory module
• Here is that noodle-slicing robot army you’ve always wanted.
• Easy woodworking puzzle to make: Golf ball in a block of wood.

Updated 9/2 to add language warning.

• 10 Cuts: How to make wooden pliers (YouTube, embedded above)
• Inside the TWA terminal at JFK, a “time capsule from 1962.”
• Emu vs Weasel Ball (YouTube)
• How does pumping a swing work?
• Historic spacecraft illustrations, CC-licensed.
• Echochamber.js — a brilliantly cynical approach to blog comments (via Scanner)
• Wintogreen Lifesaver Flash (YouTube, via @xek)
• Super-K neutrino detector news: EGADS! GADZOOKS!
• The Straight Dope on pronunciation of ancient languages
• Computer-generated handwriting: Paper (arxiv.org), online examples
• Aldrovanda vesiculos: An aquatic carnivorous plant
• Receiving weather satellite data on your computer
• A filmmaker debunks the moon landing hoax