- Music of the long now
- Nesting Eyeballs
- Garlic Bread Dalek
- Another Dice Bag
- A good introduction to using solderless breadboards for electronics.
- Silly swirled frosting for cupcakes
- Yet more silly happy face math.
- Comic
bokbook grammar - Penrose floor tiles, with links to more.
- Make a drinking straw cruise missile
- “Building blocks” of lego robots
- Creepy soft sculptures by Melissa Sue Stanley
- The Prime Spiral
- Throbbing Oil
- Old school trick for making repeating tiled patterns.
Tag Archives: linkdump
linkdump: September 2009
- Visual Proofs
- Another good reason to use math
- Pencil is an open source 2D drawing/animation program.
- One page cookbooks for Indian food. [via]
- Minuteman I ICBM guidance computer. (photo) Beauty in the beast?
- We hope that the folks doing cool steampunk art will take start making stuff in the style of the dashboard of this 1933 Chrysler Imperial Le Baron Sport Phaeton. (Must enlarge the dashboard picture for detail.)
- Weird Bird of Paradise on YouTube (via Geek Feminism Blog)
- The skinny on spotted, striped, and ticked cats.
- I am totally putting one of these engines in my next model airplane.
- Baked cookie gyoza?
- Andromeda in the UV
- Candy Rockets: Powered by sugar, just like you.
- Floppy Mirror
- Tetris Tiles!
- Makerbeam project: a very interesting approach to open-source hardware
- Whisky Density Experiment
Linkdump: August 2009
- Donkey Kong shelves
- Toys for your geeky cat
- Do you actually know how toilets are made?
- If we had thermonuclear weapons, we’d set the password to um… 00000000.
- Meringue Mario Mushrooms
- The cat ladder blog has more entries than we’d expect.
- Tube Tweezers
- Hot dog sushi — Love the bun “rice”
- Winding a toroidal transformer
- Check out the portable pie chart on this page of paper based visualizations
- Edge lit card (fancy version!)
- Impressionist cakes
- The ultimate camera accessory
- If you like the geeky-crafty aspect of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, you’ll probably also enjoy The Domestic Scientist (“Mad Science with a Hint of Nutmeg”).
- Science teachers: Ask your students to analyze this a/c system!
Linkdump: July 2009
- Bumper stickers for shoes
- How to identify pet rocks
- Yet another creepy meat substitute
- Don’t mess with chemists. They have water. (And Nitrogen Triiodide.)
- Kitty inbox
- Awesome Octopus
- The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants, now online.
- Earth-moon spacing
- Heavy Metal Nutcracker
- Heavy Metal Nutcracker
- Crazy MoFo goes for a bike ride
- Tapecraft!
- Arduino ISP shield
- Help Prevent Gray Goo!
- Negative temperatures: hotter than hot.
- Krispy Mitosis
Links on the road to TGIMBOEJ
As they sign up for the TGIMBOEJ project, we’ve been asking participants to publish a link to their web site.
Skimming through the lists, we’ve come across quite a few interesting and entertaining projects, sites, photos, and other links, both old and new.
Here are just a few of our favorites:
- DVD drive teardown
- Zezinho, the poser (interactive installation)
- A reminder of what old electronics can look like
- Also, an old Outlet Blinker
- Microcontroller controls its own power supply
- Animated jack-o-lantern
- Edge-lit robot laws
- PID on Arduino
- Command line client for Twitter
- Elmo hero
- Open-source GPIB toolkit for win32
- Silly, simple USB mug warmer
- One fine button (and some CNC stuff…)
- How to remove plastic packages from ICs
- Meggy Unboxing!
- Notes on shopping for soldering irons
- Potch’s charming home page
- The most beautiful ice-cream sandwich
- Squarecave synthesizer
- Wiring small solar cells with conductive paint
- Taxi meter clock
- Automatic cap gun
- Oscillator circuit shirt
- Hacktastic binary clock
- Theremin kit build
- A Cray-2 logic module
- Stokes’ ProjBlog
- Nixie Punk
- Symbolic math in Java
- 10x SD card
Linkdump: June 2009
- This C-17 is actually quite impressive.
- DIY Spider Catcher.
- Warping text to splines.
- 6174 is an interesting number. And so is 1729. In fact, some people claim that there is no such thing as an uninteresting number.
- Rat or mouse?
- Compact Marble Run, made in four hours.
- Math Midway traveling exhibit.
- Big switch lamp.
- Some thoughts on edible lasers.
- Hello Kthulhu.
- Had not heard of Haidinger’s Brush. Have you?
- We want superconducting maglev train sets. Now.
- Cloud wakes and vortices are visible from space. Did you know that an island can shed vortices in its wake?
- Crocodile locomotion.
Linkdump: May 2009
- Hacker emblem
- Alien Autopsy
- I wanna banana lathe!
- marble elevators from the Exploratorium
- Cool Haus (via)
- The Best Comments
- Cute felt sting rays
- Windmill-charged toy car
- Frivolous Theorem of Arithmetic
- MISO, a free font.
- Overly simple balloon animals
- 3B printing?
- Chipmunks versus Star Wars
- Plushes by SukiSuki (Coming soon, but cool looking)
- Sumopaint: An in-browser graphics app.
- VHS Pinball
- Lego Photography Tutorial in Lego, no less.
- Yet another cat that hasn’t quite figured out what to do with the sewing machine.
Linkdump: April 2009
- Fail Stickers, of course.
- TTL Emulator (via rrmutt)
- Origins of Life a quirky movie by Raven Hanna and Brandon MacInnis
- Mad Engineers?
- Vintage Suitcase Cat Beds
- Mathematical coincidences at Wikipedia. (Oh, hell yes!)
- Arcade buttons
- Mercury Fountain (via Neatorama)
- Life on earth is still surprising.
- Racing Coasters
- Fontforge: An open source font editor
- Yet another reason for double-blind studies.
- Comic: If TV science were like real science
- Hobby servo to timing belt adapter. Nifty.
- Pouchless tool belt (via Dan’s Data)
- Tweenbots FTW!
- Sin & Cos: The Programmer’s Pals!
- Vector Battle Font by Freaky Fonts
Linkdump: March 2009
- Earth invaders: Röyksopp’s Happy Up Here video (via)
- Manhattan Bridge Construction photo
- Low-cost pancake dispenser
- Coolest Coin Ever (via Core77)
- Help name the new rover! (Vote next week!)
- Recycled coin purse
- Fabric Fractal
- A reminder: “organic” food is silly. And possibly dangerous!
- Skylighter sells some interesting chemicals.
- Read about a scam based on (hilariously) bad math.
- Periodic Table Quilt
- The most reliable debugging method.
- AVR HV Rescue Shield kit.
Linkdump: February 2009
- Help fund linux projects
- Arduino-based Light Switch Complicator
- Down with Magenta!
- This Hard drive shredding video is strangely hypnotic.
- Some of you will think that this sign is funny.
- Ghostie Cookies
- Game of Life Generator
- One frame per game
- Designers beware! (Caution: JPEG artifacts)
- Layered Jello!
- MPG or GPM?
- DIY Flexible Circuits
- We’ve just updated our list of Resources for getting started with AVRs
- Guilloché Pattern Generator
- sierpinski carpet sponges (on Etsy too!)
- Nice knobs!
- Epic cupcake mosaic.