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3D printer Using Smartphone Light The creators claim this is the first of its kind, high-resolution portable 3D printer. Interesting idea. (Via Designboom) |
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Tiny Picobug It is adorable and multi-modal – it is capable of flying, crawling and grabbing. (Via IEEE Spectrum) |
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Illuminated Bluetooth Speaker A combination of white oak and LED-illuminated acrylic makes this a stylish enclosure. (Via Hackaday) |
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Laser Cut Padlock The longevity of the material for the task is questionable, but still a cool idea..(Via Ponoko) |
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Dancing Peacock Spiders with Lightsabers This is just fun to say, even more fun to watch (Via Nerdist). |
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Turning a Tape Gun Into a Prototyping Machine Interesting idea, but not necessarily very practical (Via Makezine). |
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A story-based Japanese Rube Goldberg Machine This Rube Goldberg machine features not only some amazing timing and clever solutions but also a cute story (Via Sciencedump). |
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Pile of Skulls Laser-engraved rolling pin for (next) Halloween pastries (Via TLC). |
Brought to you from every corner of the great internets.
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Laser Cut Junk Food .. by I’m Your Present (Via TLC) |
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Leatherman Tread ..and the unboxing of it. Wonder how it will behave at airport security..(Via Notcot) |
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Blue Whale Experience This is what it looks like being a blue whale and feeding on krill, by the Goldbogen lab at Hopkins Marine Station (Via IFLScience) |
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Solar Windows |
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Das Katzetelegraf Whatever makes cats’ life better is a good thing! Read on at Hackaday. |
Keep warm! What else can I say… This is the season of thermosocks, spice chai, frozen windshields and many layers. For those who are not hibernating just yet, here’s a weekly dose of entertainment:
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Bioluminescent Bacteria Lamp I want one! Hopefully no bacteria were hurt in this lighting experiment, and they were all paid accordingly before being let go home into the Mediterranean. (By Teresa van Dongen, via TheFoxIsBlack) |
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Glowy Zoey Costume version 2.0 Simple as a stick person and brilliant as RGB LEDs idea, also reacts to sound. Video |
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Ferrofluid as Album art Ferrofluid can be strikingly psychedelically beautiful too. Especially if given some color. (Via Laughing Squid) |
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Wax Motors A comprehensive teardown of a wax motor. (Via Hackaday) |
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An Aerial Laser Display Seems a little seizure-inducing at the moment, but looks like it has big potential. (Via Colossal) |
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LED Wood Clock Wish it was shown with the lights off/at night.. (Via Imgur) |
Sun, yellow leaves and a new harvest of links from this morning:
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The Abovemarine The representatives of the alien underwater civilization are now able to navigate land and hang out with other creatures. (Via Creative Applications) |
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3D-Printed Dresses These are made straight outta mathematical formulas! (Via Beautiful Decay) |
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The Dancing Traffic Light It’s even cooler because it’s in real time and real people. (Via Laughing Squid) |
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Lunchtime Lasers Oh laser engraved quesadillas, they so yummy. (Via Ponoko) |
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Electromagnetic Field Photos These look extremely mysterious for some reason, don’t they? (Via Creative Applications) |
Saying “links” – implying “Wednesday”, saying “Wednesday” – meaning “links”. Inseparable like yolk and white, heart and attack, bugs and spray. Here they are, the links.
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NASA Releases Many Printable 3D Models Yesss, lot’s of grey filament and here you have yourself an accurate 3D model of your favourite asteroid. (Via Fabbaloo) |
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Solder paste …looks cool under microscope! (Via NYC Resistor) |
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Tiny Walking Robots Powered by Muscle Cells Biorobotics is the way to go, I say. Do away with bulky square leaden boxes. (Vie IEEESpectrum) |
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goTenna Portable Telephone Network Sad, I guess you can’t watch movies on that… (Via Designboom) |
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Generative Typography with Processing
Coding to create hairy text – I’m all for it. (Via CreativeApplications.net) |
…. And Red and Green (and Blue)!
Brief summary of today’s short issue: it is about squishy mice robots that feed on the dark matter, live in weird motors and make TVs smile.
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Smile TV Pretty retro-looking 4-legged TV leaves you smiling like an idiot in order to watch anything. (Via Designboom) |
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How Squishy Would You Like Your Robot? Finally science moving in the right direction – making robotics more human-like and organic like. Squishy is good! (Via IEEE Spectrum) |
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The Weirdest Engine Hopefully it works just as good as it looks… (Via Gizmodo) |
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Super Black Material Aside from all jokes about ninjas, goths and little black dresses, this is mesmerizing and I can’t stop staring at it. (Via IFL Science) |
…as opposed to mice that feed on light.
Well, we missed out on spring, but summer is finally here and it is hot! And that means we have fireworks, mosquitoes, green stuff on trees, bunnies and sparrows, air conditioning, donuts, lasers, er… that is year round. That’s why today we have some thunder clouds in order to provide some cooling, laser bent wood to provide some funky patterns, and turtles. They are always good to have no matter the weather.
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Interactive Cloud Cloud stuffed with electronics including Arduino and motion sensors to simulate real thunder cloud. I wish it also hovered around on its own. (Via Colossal) |
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Curved Laser Bent Wood Via the geeks at Instructables.com, here’s something we’ll be putting in our “Laser-to-test” file. Let’s make flexible wood with laaaazors! |
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Please Tell This Robot What a Turtle Looks Like …or teach him to ask about it if he doesn’t know. (Via IEEESpectrum) |
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Light Pen Draws on LED Matrix This seems like a beginning of something really cool. Maybe because it involves LEDs, or drawing, or matrix, I am not sure. (Via Hackaday) |
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A DIY Water-Saving Device Saving water is good. I want one of those for psychological pressure, and more general guilt. (Via Arduino blog) |
Just like turtles, LEDs add to any project, so hence them.
Another Wednesday brings another dose of links. What’s new about that? Links themselves, I guess.
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Time-lapse Panoramas We’ve all seen panoramas like that – but the video at the end of the post is really worth watching (Via Geek.com) |
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3D Weaving Regular weaving is complex, imagine weaving in three dimensions! And the machine that does just that. (Via Notcot) |
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Laser Cut Inspiration Always nice to see what projects you can do with a laser, especially I like the first one, what an awesome and functional way to utilize the rotary attachment!(Via Ponoko) |
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Wireless Charging Pants …just make sure to not wash the phone while it’s charging! (Via Designboom) |
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Math Equations Visualized … and cast in plaster make fascinating sculptures. Somehow the translation of this totally abstract concept into something tangible is really exciting. Dunno why. (Via Wired) |
Although I missed one week. Sorry.
It’s the summer! Or something somewhat similar… And this is the summer issue of the new links. Not the last one, of course.
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Mechanical Ball Clock Wood? And marbles? And it’s a clock?! This needs to be shown! (Via Dangerous Prototypes) |
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Magnetic Sand Hourglass Don’t we all love things to fidget with? This one will not only help you kill time but also feel guilty about it right away – it is a clock after all. (Via Gizmodo) |
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Robot Arms Another 9 pairs of those, and maybe we can compete some Hindu gods… (Via IEEE Spectrum) |
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3D Printed Ear Now this is kinda creepy – should we address this ear by its name? (Via Designboom) |
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Light Painting It’s the glowing brain! (Via Hackaday) |



