Archive for June, 2008

Prince Rupert’s Drop

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Here’s a wild video about something called a Prince Rupert Drop. Essentially a piece of glass is quickly cooled in water forming a drop with a tail. When removed the glass is virtually unbreakable, how ever if you remove the tail the drop shatters into tiny pieces.

Phoenix panorama

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Phoenix panorama – The Planetary Society has an attempt at creating a panorama of the Phoenix images to date. Quite an amazing view, I wonder what the mountains in the background are.

Are you ready to celebrate?…

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Twitter / MarsPhoenix: Are you ready to celebrate?… turns out it’s ice, not salt.
Awesome! There was once water on mars!

Amazing transistor clock

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

This site has a transistor clock. Made with no IC’s! Just tons of transister, diodes, capacitors and resistors. Amazing, I’d love to build something like this I don’t know I have the patience.

code_swarm

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

code_swarm has several cool open source repository visualizations. An interesting way to show the history and participants.

BMW GINA Light Visionary Model

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Video displaying the new BMW concept car covered in cloth. I personally think it’s great. Most likely it’s considerably more energy efficient to produce, and I think it’s definitely more attractive. Perhaps some day we’ll see this.

Airduino Scungy Anemometer

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Airduino Scungy Anemometer I’ve been a large fan (no pun intended) of this blog for a while. Although here Keith shows the true ingenuity and usefulness of knowing how to create and construct things like this. A great thorough explanation of ingenuity and reused components to keep oneself cool.

CNC milled geographic data

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Scott Johnston has a project to take google earth data and run it though his CNC mill to produce a physical model of the geographic terrain. Brilliant idea, and very interesting.

Magnetic Movie

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

I thought this a great little movie trying to explain what invisible magnetic fields might actually look like.

Everyone has an inner n-rd.