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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.

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

Bad Astronomy Blog/Best. Image. Ever. Here’s an image of the lander taken from the orbiter. This is so awesome . The coordination is so great that we can take a picture of one probe with another one. Chaulk up another great success for NASA. Now to wait for the science.

Phun – 2D physics sandbox. A research product, watch the youtube video. It’s fun to play with. It’s interface is simple, but can get very complicated depending on where you go with it.

Phoenix descent video. Bad Astronomy is on the scene with the phoenix descent video. Phoenix is the next Martian lander which is equipped with devices to look for water and do basic soil element detection. More at NASA Phoenix

Since the announcement of the Google X prize, plenty of company and schools are competing to get to the moon. Team FREDNET – Race to the Moon is an open source collaboration to build a community to accomplish the task. I think it’s a brilliant idea. They have to raise the funding [...]

Great blog about working at Atari back in the day. DadHacker worked on donkey kong and lived through the great Atari buy out. Great well written stories about what it was like then along with some priceless wisdom.

No I don’t mean that crappy plastic board. Some students made this Electronic Dartboard or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ECE 476 it’s a horse hair board that is a very complex but well done project. It’s worth the read to find out how they did the dart detection alone.

Next big future has an entry titled Rewritable holograms will revolutionize medicine and advertising, it’s about a group at University of Arizona who created a rewritable 3d hologram. It’s apparently pretty fast and they’re working on a full color version. They talk about advertisements and TV, but I wonder about it’s impact on [...]

A great article from the New York Times about hobbyist tracking of government spy satellites. It turns out there is a group dedicating to predicting orbits and guessing at function of these top secret satellites.