- MatterHackers Punch-Out: The Best 3D Print Ejector Ever (YouTube, via Make)
- The 11,000 marble marble machine
- Red Hot Nickel Ball (RHNB) vs Jawbreaker (YouTube)
- After Dark (Classic Mac Screensavers) in CSS
- 3D printed sink faucets by American Standard
- The Amazing Do-Nothing Machine at the Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship Museum (YouTube)
- Building enclosures from circuit boards @ Hackaday
- Elsa M. Garmire, laser art pioneer
- Resonant Frequency of Googly Eyes from Rob Cruickshank (Vimeo)
- Painting clean lines with painter’s tape @ Popular Mechanics
- svgerber: a browser based Gerber to SVG converter, for previewing circuit board designs
- The chalk that the mathematicians are hoarding
- Cat video: Kitty hitches a ride in the wing of an ultralight aircraft.
Tag Archives: linkdump
Linkdump: May 2015
- DIY alarm clock with a cast “transparent” display
- A quick step on lava: YouTube or GIF. Bonus: Lava vs Coca-Cola.
- Waves and water spouts generated in a circular tank. (via Laughing Squid)
- A panoramic view inside the Eagle lunar lander module
- Chain reaction Hermit Crab House Swap
- “World’s Tiniest” Lego-compatible Light Up Bricks @ kickstarter
- Automatic Hershey Text replacement (in French; translation here.)
- Apple watch: MacOS 7 edition
- Mining internet photos to build time lapse sequences
- Death Star Piñata
Linkdump: April 2015
- Fixing Computer Space, the 1971 arcade game
- Ethanol-shaped bottle opener @ Shapeways
- Lunar Lava Tubes: Nice place for a moon base!
- Modern alternatives to the HTML <blink> tag.
- Word vs LaTeX: Which is more productive? (It depends, of course.)
- Paper: Source of perytons identified. (“Perytons” being millisecond-duration transients of terrestrial origin.)
- Real Vegan Cheese: A cool project from our friends at Bio-hackerspace Counter Culture Labs.
- A layered-fabric 3D printer for soft objects: Link (pdf)
- Dark matter may feel dark forces.
- Biosphere 2: The planetary makerspace
- Open Source Software for Quantum Information, Developed in partnership with NIST
- APOD: All the nebulas in Orion.
Linkdump: March 2015
- No, you are not a tetrachromat.
- How to solder without electricity (or a soldering iron). Hint: candles produce heat.
- Automated Pocky Dispenser (via Hackaday)
- Reminder: Don’t plug untrusted USB devices into your computer.
- Power grids with heavy solar: What happens during an eclipse?
- Open source photopolymer resin for Autodesk’s Ember 3D printer.
- Walkthrough of the Apple Watch making-of videos @ Atomic Delights
- Original Moog Schematics
- The most expensive part of farmed salmon: Pink coloration pills.
- Agricultural water usage per pound of food in California: How many gallons of water does it take to make a pound of almonds?
Linkdump: January 2015
- Asteroid 2004 BL86 will pass close to earth on January 26. With a dark sky and a 4-inch telescope, you can watch it go by. This video will show you how.
- Make your own upside-down bat house
- Maillardet’s Automaton
- Hershey Fonts for gEDA
- Surface area of a sphere: Proof by clementine
- Escher-inspired cutting board
- Laser marking steel with plaster and alcohol
- This discrete-logic digital clock is a work of art
- From Gongkai to Open Source (Bunnie Studios)
- Laser-cut mint-tin watercolor palettes
- Gold embrittlement is a thing: Hazards of soldering with gold+tin+lead
Linkdump: December 2014
- The Lyrebird goes “Pew Pew Pew” via Laughing Squid
- Digital Joints Poster by Meredith Scheff-King
- Another take on single stroke fonts in Inkscape, from RasterWeb
- Katz & Maus: Charming Hand-driven wooden automata, with free plans
- 3D printed horology
- Lego Great Ball Contraption (Youtube, 2013)— one of the finest examples ever made. See also the new invisible lift module, which will likely appear in a future contraption.
- Edible hot glue: Could you just use regular candy canes as glue sticks?
- Retro Computing Gift Guide
Linkdump: November 2014
- Maps Of Street Layouts Colored By Orientation (via jwz)
- Yes We Can. But Should We? The unintended consequences of the maker movement
- Black hole physics and Interstellar
- Comic: Robot that Screams. Available as a print here.
- OpenTrons: Open-Source Rapid Prototyping for Biology
- It Took 23 Years to Link Amelia Earhart’s Disappearance to This Scrap of Metal
- Mechanical CPU Clock — Inspired by the Digi-Comp II
- An honest look at Ampy and Juse @ Dropkicker, motion and solar energy harvesting phone chargers.
- Basics of Prototyping with cardboard
- Video: How paperclips are made. German language, but so cool it doesn’t need words.
Linkdump: July 2014
- Physics of the Marimba
- An espresso shot in slow motion
- An interesting breadboard-style proto pcb with a higher density of holes
- Business pogs. It’s like a Spock-with-a-beard level alternate-universe experience.
- ? vs ?: How many times does Jenny’s number appear in the first billion digits of pi? (See also: Jenny’s Constant)
- Detexify2 – LaTeX symbol classifier
- A visual guide to robots and cyborgs
- Remember the opposition effect? Works on mars, too: On descent,and from the surface (1, 2)
- What’s that rotating object? It’s the possibly-binary nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, imaged by the ESA Rosetta spacecraft, en route to rendezvous with the comet — and land a probe on the nucleus in early August.(image credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA)
Linkdump: May 2014
- Electronics shopping on eBay: Is it possible that someone mis-translated “resistor” as “restraint”?
- Cool design for a solderless optical theremin kit
- New York City through a Game Boy camera in the year 2000
- Intelligent 8-bit style “launch graphics” with ATmega328 (using our AVR target boards)
- PCBshopper: Up-to-date comparison shopping for printed circuit board manufacturing
- Physics: Chain reactions with the domino effect
- Now you can actually get that autorouter tee-shirt.
- Another in-circuit emulator (pictured) for our discrete 555 kit, by Timothy Brown on twitter
Linkdump: April 2014
- An all-new version of the PancakeBot will be coming to the Bay Area Maker Faire this year!
- Interesting new site: takeitapart.com, sharing take-apart guides for hardware
- Fun use of a quadcopter: A flying RC aircraft carrier
- Make Color Changing Cocktails.
- An important reminder about why we use safety equipment
- Another lovely scale model 555
- A cordwood construction soldering kit
- FarmBot: Open Source agricultural machinery, coming soon.
- Henna + WaterColorBot + Processing = robo-mehndi
