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gareth branwyn posted Vacuum Forming EVA Foam

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I’m not one for New Year’s Resolutions, but I’m already telling myself that one of the things I want to break down and learn in 2023 is vacuum forming. In this 2-part video on Pro…

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Jordon was on his way to Maker Camp in the Catskills this past October and needed a place to sleep. So, he thought, what better thing to do than to make a camper for maker camp? He used an old U-Ha…

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gareth branwyn posted Building PONG! on a Breadboard

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In this cool episode of Dave’s Garage, he looks at the origins of PONG!, the first arcade game, and then goes under the hood to find out how the game was implemented. Dave then takes apart a …

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We’re more than sure you noticed that we’re huge fans of Ada Lovelace here at Adafruit! This time around we’re celebrating Ada Lovelace’s 207th birthday. Want to know more? Check out ou…

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gareth branwyn posted 10 Useful Oddball Tools

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Izzy Swan has a fantastic list of ten tools you might not know about that he counts as some of his favorites. These tools include a Rototape (a tape measure for marking circles and radii), wire cut…

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We knew this video from Polyphonic was going to be right on the money as soon as it started with a reference to Fritz Lang’s M, which of course begs the discussion of why children’s son…

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gareth branwyn posted Write Like An Architect

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When I was a teen, I took a mechanical drawing elective class in high school and loved it. I loved it so much, I held on to my mechanical drawing textbook until I moved last year. Of course, part o…

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If you missed Tuesday’s Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter, here is the ICYMI (in case you missed it) version. To never miss another issue, subscribe now! – You’ll get one terrific newsletter ea…

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From the mail bag! Hi Adafruit Team, I just wanted to take a second and offer up some praise for your customer service and support teams. I’ve purchased many products from Adafruit and of all…

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A “shaggy dog” story is a category of story in which a large number of words are used, but with a wholly disappointing and uninteresting conclusion. Why do I mention that? No particular reason. So,…

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As Kevin McCallister knew, nobody does the holidays like NYC. Everywhere you turn there are festivities afoot. The yearly tree at the American Museum of Natural History is outfitted with origami bu…

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Learn all about Arctic sinkholes in this documentary from NOVA PBS Official on YouTube: What are the implications of these dramatic developments in the Arctic? Scientists and local communities alik…

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Coffee guru James Hoffman purchased a shmancy caffeine testing kit to get some real data. Some of the findings confirm info that is anecdotally passed around, other findings, quite the opposite. A …

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Image: DALLE-E prompt “Madison Square Gardenn bans Girl Scout troop mom at Christmas Spectacular show at Radio City Music Hall using facial recognition” and some art added … &#821…

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From the mail bag! This note is just an accolade, multiplied by admiration, squared. In the early days of Mac I taught others with what became privately circulated “Tyro’s guides to (xyz) of …

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GrayKube shared this project on Thingiverse! Removed the eye and pupil so they can be printed separately in different colors. Download files: Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY…

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rakoivun shared on Thingiverse: Detergent box snout I needed to pour detergent powder to smaller container. It was difficult. Created this spout to make it easier. Confirmation – it is easier…

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If you follow the fairly niche world of televised Yule logs you may have noticed a peculiar trend. Yule logs are getting scarier? At least that’s what the Verge discovered: My first sign that…

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In the work of English artist Ed Fairburn, maps are landscapes for portraits. Here’s more from COLOSSAL: As an avid map collector, he is fascinated by the urban landscape and cartographic des…

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From the mail bag! I’m very happy with every one of my Adafruit experiences. One of my first purchases was over $300 worth of Pi stuff and, because of how much I bought, I got a free CPE. Tha…

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Hey folks, we’ll be off for the next two weeks and returning January 11th 2023 at 11am ET. Be sure to catch up on the last stream if you missed it! Until next time, remember to make a great d…

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jdhungerford98 shared this project on Thingiverse! Holes are for m3 screws if tapped or m2 through bolts. I just super glued the edges on and they held more than fine without screws, but do whateve…

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There’s no time like the start of a new year to wipe the dust off that thing you really wanted to do however long ago. Jemma Pollari put together this fantastic guide for Photofocus to gettin…

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As seen on LinkedIn. Three brilliant researchers from Japan have revolutionized the realm of mechanics with their revolutionary invention called ABENICS.  This 3D gear, unlike any other, could prov…

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Stephanie posted Happy New Year, 2023

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Happy New Year from Adafruit! Cheers to our wonderful community, and to a bright year ahead!

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I recently had a debate with my 10 year old nephew on the pros and cons of IP entering the public domain, his take was surprisingly nuanced. Regardless of how you feel, every year a list of works b…

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From the mail bag! HAPPY, HEALTHY, and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR EVERYONE Thank you for all your wonderful support.

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Are you looking to gain a deeper understanding of Boolean logic? Then Bkriet’s DIY logic gate game is a great place to start. The idea behind “Name! That! Gate!” is too make learning computing fund…

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In a recent piece for The Verge, Monique Judge made a pretty compelling argument on behalf of the personal blog. We’ve all been talking for years now about the cracks and rot forming in most/…

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Concrete made by the Romans has lasted for millennia, and seems more durable than modern concrete. Why? A team of researchers from MIT, Harvard, and laboratories in Italy and Switzerland, has figur…

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The Infineon team recently create their own version of this mechanical 7 segment display. It is a really fun project for a funky large scale clock or display! In this video I’ll be showing you how …

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gareth branwyn posted The Tech That Died in 2022

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So, what tech officially became digital dodo birds in 2022? CNet looks at the list, which includes the Blackberry(!!!), 3G cellular, the Apple iPod Touch (the last of the line to be officially put …

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gareth branwyn posted Trying to Make Toaster Art

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Bob of I Like to Make Stuff decided he wanted to try and find a way of toasting images onto bread. In this video, he experiments with a bunch of different ways and doesn’t ever come up with a…

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Last week at CES Project Leonardo for PlayStation 5 was announced. Project Leonardo is a codename being used for a customizable controller kit designed to help increase accessibility: Through conve…

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If you were looking forward to never writing a paper on your own again, think twice. Edward Tian of Princeton University built an app to detect whether or not text was written by ChatGPT. NPR share…

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gareth branwyn posted Ten Amazing Amateur Rockets

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It’s always fun to check in on the hobby rocketry scene, which just keeps on getting more impressive. Here are ten amateur birds, including several high-pressure water rockets which achieve a…

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One of the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco’s current exhibitions is an awesome display of Batman memorabilia. The Batman Armory features movie costumes and props courtesy of the talented …

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phillip torrone posted

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SHOW and TELL 1/11/2023 #ShowandTell The biggest and longest running worldwide online Show and Tell LIVE! 1/11/2023 – video.

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From the mail bag! I wanted to briefly write to express my excitement and gratitude about the recent purchase of my Raspberry Pi. In the November-ish timeframe of 2020, I spent a few weeks hammerin…

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Over on the QRP HomeBuilder – QRPHB  blog, a home-built guitar amplifier: This Fall, I built the first of 2 planned practice amps. Inspired by simple 1950’s tube guitar amps I too kept it sim…

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This video from one hacker band on YouTube is next level awesome. It sort of reminds me of a robotic, modern version of the classic “Bert as a one man band” scene from the 1964 Mary Pop…

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Reserve a Culture Pass with your Brooklyn, New York or Queens Public Library card and access tons of NYC cultural institutions, like the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, MoMA, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dan…

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gareth branwyn posted Building a 100% New Commodore 64

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Retro Recipes has been waiting for a few remaining parts to be able to build a Commodore 64 with all new and historically correct parts. Thanks to a recent crowdfunding campaign to make the C64 key…

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ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up …

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We’ve gotten a couple more #CircuitPython2023 posts! Thank you all! It’s not too late to post your own. Please post yours by the end of January 18th (tomorrow!) and email circuitpython2…

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Stephanie posted MacroPad Jukebox

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Carlos Olmos used a MacroPad and a Pi 3B to make a music player which they could use to listen to albums from their own collection and shared the project on Hackster.io The MacroPad RP2040 controls…

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Today is the last day for #CircuitPython2023. However, if you need more time, just email and we’ll wait for you before doing the final wrap up post. When you post, please email circuitpython2…

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Here’s another one of this fun scale comparison videos. This one looks at monster sizes, from Dart on Stranger Things to Super Shenron, the Eternal Dragon from Dragon Ball which is bigger tha…

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It used to be “talking about the weather” indicated light, fluffy, easy chitchat. Not so much nowadays. It may be useful, then, to explore DIY project that present weather in a simple, …

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Blue light in the morning and red light in the evening can help us adopt a more natural circadian rhythm. Blue light is stimulating and ideal to be exposed to early in the day while the removal of …

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ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up …

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The Science Museum in Kensington will debut a new new gallery focusing on the bodies, lives, creations, and connections of engineers. You can see it on display starting June 23rd, so don’t sa…

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Todd at Project Farm took a look at 15 different brands of heated gloves. The gloves were compared for their ability to create heat, retain heat without air movement across the gloves, retain heat …

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Thank you all for your #CircuitPython2023! It’s wonderful to see all of the different things that have people’s interest. 2023 will be another exciting year for CircuitPython. Don&#8217…

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Rammed earth, bottle walls, straw bale, rubber tire walls, recycled plastic — there are so many building material alternatives. Some work, some really, really don’t. Here’s yet an…

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Sanctuary AI’s Robots Doing Stuff #17 features robots smoothly opening and closing valves. Look how smoothly these bots move! We’re really into the possibility of asking a robot to clos…

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In the Stacks (Maisie’s Tune) by Robin Sloan is a short story AND a synthesizer with knobs you can fiddle with. Read the entire story at Brand New Box I’M A LIBRARIAN, so of course I was pick…

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When you think of Pink Floyd, what pops into your head? If it’s their album art, then you should also think of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell. The artists collectively known as Hipgn…

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First and second year engineering students at Harlow College (Harlow, Essex, UK) have been busy designing and building a new CubeSat platform, with the ultimate aim of getting their boards and desi…

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From the mail bag! Your products seem to almost be released by telepathy… The new 3V-to-5V i2c boost breakout has landed here in the UK just as I was doing the SEN55 driver for wippersnapper.…

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gareth branwyn posted Sophy Wong at Supercon

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The talented high-tech wearables artist and maker, Sophy Wong, was one of the presenters at Supercon last year. On Hackaday, they did a nice write-up about Sophy and her talk. Prolific designer and…

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gareth branwyn posted Making a Home Shop Furnace

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On this episode of Clickspring, Chris shows the build process he used to create a home shop furnace. Instead of a fully castable refractory, as is common, he went with a modular one that has the bu…

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What is a Fourier transform? In the Adafruit Learn Guide FFT: Fun with Fourier Transforms, Tony DiCola  write “At a high level the Fourier transform is a mathematical function which transform…

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It doesn’t matter that it’s January, what matters is we’re less than 11 months away from the most wonderful time of the year. Henkeify shares his countdown clock on instructables.…

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Introducing a new BFF for your tiny audio projects! This sketch-of-a-board adds a MAX98357 3W I2S amplifier to your favorite QT Py or Xiao boards. The pins have been picked to work with RP2040, ESP…

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Researchers at Stanford Medicine have shown they can measure thousands of molecules from a single drop of blood. Here’s to hoping doctor’s appointments in the coming years are less stre…

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Stephanie posted LED Garage Door Lights

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Sure, this Instructable from taste_the_code is for Christmas lights, but aren’t blinky lights fun year round? We certainly think so. The entire light show is simple, easily customizable, and …

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ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up …

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gareth branwyn posted Which Bench Grinder is Best?

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In this Project Farm product testing video, Todd looks at bench grinders. The brands tested are JET, Shop Fox, Rikon, Delta, SKIL, Hercules, Bauer, Performance Tool, and WEN. Grinders were tested f…

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Stephanie posted SignCompanyVOC

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Looking for a way to monitor humidity, temperature, CO2 (ppm), and TVOC (ppb)? Clint Wolf was and decided to go the DIY route! Checkout the build on Hackster.io: Prints shops are concerned about in…

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London-based architecture studio Hyperspace converted a suburban garage into a garden studio in Hertfordshire, England. Built from 850 pieces of charred wood using a process called Shou Sugi Ban, t…

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From the mail bag! Oh goodness me thank you… Both our kids love this and the repetition is driving us mad. Gives my wife an excuse to get out the soldering iron again. Please for the love of …

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DaveMakesStuff shares: This Yarn Bowl features a thick regular knit pattern on the sides and bottom. Use it to keep your ball of yarn from running away! See here for video: See here for stable down…

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If you are looking to make the most game accurate cosplay of Kratos, PlayStation has you covered. They released a detailed guide for a bunch of characters with notes, close ups, and more. No more r…

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gareth branwyn posted How Micro Drill Bits Are Made

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How many times have you asked yourself: “I wonder how micro drill bits are made!” OK, maybe never. But you’ll never need to ask after watching this Science Channel video.

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Recently I’ve been watching a lot of these Process X videos showing handcrafted production work from various countries. A lot of this work is so inspiring. In this video, Japanese craftspeopl…

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ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up …

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MIT shares how engineers devised a new system to produce more efficient and scalable aquabots. In one of the devices produced by the team, the voxels are attached end-to-end in a long row to form a…

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Ben posted Why Lego won

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You know about Coke vs Pepsi, Nintendo vs Sega but did you know about Kiddicraft vs. LEGO? There was a clear winner in the battle for plastic building block supremacy. It ultimately comes down to b…

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In this nearly 18-minute video, architect and YouTuber, Dami Lee, does an admirable job of detailing the challenges humans will face in colonizing Mars. Being an architect, she focuses on habitat a…

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Stephanie posted Hackaday Berlin 2023

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That’s right folks! Hackaday Berlin 2023 has been scheduled for Saturday, March 25! Early bird tickets are currently on sale over on eventbrite and the Hackaday folks are recommending a Frida…

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From the mail bag! Just wanted to say thanks for all you do!!!! With the stresses and strains in todays world you provide resources for some relaxing down time. I just got my Picos in and have been…

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From the mail bag! 4th and 5th graders are making Magic Wands with @adafruit circuit playgrounds. It’s a mix of Computer Science, Art and creative fun! THANKS

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gareth branwyn posted If Rockets Were Transparent

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How cool is this animation showing four different rocket types, with transparent bodies, taking off, burning away their fuel, and going through their stage separation phases.

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Stephanie posted Dr. Mariana Yazbek

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Dr. Mariana Yazbek manages the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas International Genebank in Lebanon. Back in 2021 ICARDA published a Q&A with Dr. Yazbek that cover…

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The Embrace is a memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King on Boston Common. The sculpture was unveiled January 13 and is accompanied by a Digital Experience that allows users …

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NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day posted this back in January and it’s definitely an early contender for my favorite graphic of 2023. The concept is rather simple: color-coding the pe…

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The KiCad to Unicode Renderer takes KiCad source files and translates them to Unicode text drawings. Parsing the kicad schematics files is reasonably simple as they are human readable (well ASCII a…

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gareth branwyn posted How to Sharpen a Pencil

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Several weeks ago, some serious foolishness broke out on Instagram where makers were trying to outdo each other with the craziest way of sharpening a pencil. Now that we’ve come back to reali…

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About 6,500 Black women enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps during World War II. The Black women of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, more commonly referred to as the Six Triple Eight, …

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Eiflershared on Thingiverse Eiskaltelämpchen Wednesday Thing Decorative lamp with thread for an E14 base. It is best to buy a table lamp with E14 base for little money and use the material. Print w…

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gareth branwyn posted Making Wind-Up Paper Butterflies

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This would make a fun weekend project for the kids. All you need is some stiff paper, a couple of paper clips, and a rubber band to make wind-up butterflies. Not sure where the “robot” …

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gareth branwyn posted Machining a 0.6mm Watch Screw

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Yowza. Imagine trying to machine watchmaking hardware. In this video, we see Mike Godfrey machining a 0.6mm screw, so tiny you can barely see it. He uses a watchmaker’s lathe which spins at a…

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Tetris might be a perfect game. Launched with the GameBoy it has since sold 520 million copies and is, by far, the best selling video game of all time. Apple TV shared this trailer for their upcomi…

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In this Peter Dibble video, he looks at the history of KarTrak, the first barcode system. Developed in the late 1960s, KarTrak consisted of color-barred plates on the sides of railroad cars that co…

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Not just around for show, femme fatales help move the plot and show just how ridiculously easy it is to distract a main character, no matter how clever they think they might be. Whether it’s …

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gareth branwyn posted Testing 12 Brands of Work Boots

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In this episode of Project Farm, Todd trains his testing instruments on work boots. The brands he tested were Red Wing, Redback, Steel Blue, Carolina, Rockport, Reebok, Herman Survivors, Larnmern, …

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You still have a month tho check out Bull.Miletic: Proxistant Vision at SFMCD, which is on view through March 19, 2023. Engineer Pete Warden gave the exhibit an enthusiastic endorsement on his blog…

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HackSpace Magazine Issue 64 – Soldering Irons on Test has a review of the Adafruit 5×5 NeoPixel Grid BFF Add-On for QT Py and Xiao. I really like the QT Py board from Adafruit, and if you have one,…

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John Park posted PicoADK Sound DSP Board

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The Datanoise PicoADK (Audio Development Kit) is a RaspberryPi Pico + high quality 32-bit audio codec output, and eight analog input pins. It’s designed to enable development of digital synth…