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Ugliest building
Paul Spooner has released an 18 page booklet in which he describes the basic mechanisms used in his automata. Download it for free until Sept. 30th.
Tags: automata, booklet, cabaret mechanical theatre, kinematics, machines, mechanisms, paul spooner, pdf
Rolling Ball Computer
Eric Uhrhane is building a mechanical computer that uses rolling balls! It looks like he’s made it through the design is now starting the actual building part (yay!) And it looks like he’s going at about the same speed as my mechanical computer (also yay!)
Tags: ball, computer, kinematics, mechanical, rolling ball, rolling ball machine, rolling ball sculpture
Legomania at the MoMA
Quoth the website: “…an excuse to spend a little time on a Friday afternoon playing with Legos, we decided to whip up some pieces in MoMA’s collection in Lego form. After spending a few bucks online getting a couple bags of mixed bricks, we went to town.”
Tags: Art, lego, minimalism, moma, sculpture
Double Resistor
Obamas go to Burning Man
The Obamas take a break from Martha’s Vineyard to head out to Black Rock City.
As reported in the worlds only reliable news.
Tags: black rock city, burning man, obama, politics, weekly world news
Want
TI has a low power embedded microcontroller for $4.30. Obviously not a powerful system, but… WANT!
Tags: damn cheap, embedded systems, microcontroller, ti



