A Macbook Pro, a Canon 5D and $9000 June 26, 2014
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I would go so far as to say that the friends and families have the benefit of fairly good writing, excellent editing…and some actual talent.
Air Harp Using Leap Motion Controller June 24, 2014
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Brilliant guy makes the Leap Motion controller into an actually useful music triggering device. Interesting demo (!!!) begins at 3:20.
Obsessive Nerd Music June 20, 2014
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Well, if you need to obsess over something it should be something good like Bach’s greatest hit, Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
Not a Pie Chart June 20, 2014
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What happens when you tweak the ingredients
tDCS Quick Summary June 19, 2014
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Not the most riveting speaking style, though. This guy is much more fun, starting with “I want to be your trough of disillusionment.”
I presume he was the bummer after Dr. Clark of UNM,
promptly harshing his mellow with juicy contradictory evidence (science, bitches!).
For My Mother June 19, 2014
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Mom, I didn’t think you would ever find this on YouTube.
A Bag of Coke for Father’s Day June 18, 2014
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How thoughtful! Well, it wasn’t a kilo of coke, but a high-altitude balloon that my step-daughters realize would be a nifty experiment. Thank you, ladies.
Time-lapse Supernova June 11, 2014
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The Hubble Space Telescope is probably the best investment in pure science EVER. Even if it only brought us this time-lapse image of a nova(?) expanding OVER FOUR YEARS, it’s still the greatest show on Earth. Uh, you know what I mean. It could be:
- An atypical nova outbursts (this is very unlikely.)
- A thermal pulse of a dying star (the new pulse illuminates the layers of star material previously ejected its previous outbursts.)
- A thermonuclear event within a massive supergiant (in which the helium in one of the layers of the massive star ignites and starts a fusion process.)
- A mergeburst (the burst caused by the merge of two main sequence stars.)
- A planetary capture event (in which the star has swallowed one of its giant gas planets.)
There’s a video:
Homebrew Robotics Club Example June 10, 2014
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A fine example of the art, this one avoids obstacles and can walk or roll with equal ease. Google provides them a meeting room I think the last Wednesday of the month…
…must find time for this sort of thing.
In Pursuit of the Utterly Nerdly June 4, 2014
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I adore this complete and utter waste of time; a glass harp, automated to remove the human finger, tuned by raising or lowering the water level with a suspended water balloon. I found this beautiful ephemera on hackster.io, which is a sharing site for this sort of thing. They aren’t as well known as Instructables.com (another beautiful time sink), but they are trying very hard.
Obviously.
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