The Rings of Earth (via T0R0YD)
The First ACK
A often deranged links tumbled across by yet another Perl hacker, pretending to be an Astronomer, pretending to be a Perl hacker.
Arduino Hardcopy
The Hardcopy is an Arduino clone with a built in prototyping area.
My cousin’s friend’s girlfriend told me about this video where every urban legend is true…
Exploring the Apollo 17 Site
LRO maneuvered into its 50-km mapping orbit on September 15. The next pass over the Apollo 17 landing site resulted in images with more than two times better resolution than previously acquired. At the time of this recent overflight the Sun was high in the sky (28° incidence angle) helping to bring out subtle differences in surface brightness. The descent stage of the lunar module Challenger is now clearly visible, at 50-cm per pixel (angular resolution) the descent stage deck is eight pixels across (four meters), and the legs are also now distinguishable.
Printing circuits on the RepRap
Rhys Jones has been working with the RepRap team to develop a way to print circuit boards. The machine first prints the plastic substrate with channels for the metal to be deposited into. They adapted their pinch wheel feeder to work with solid core solder. The extruded solder’s specific heat isn’t hot enough to melt the plastic.
Free-flying cyborg insects steered from a distance
By connecting electrodes and radio antennas to the nervous systems of beetles, the researchers were able to make them take off, dive and turn on command. The cyborg insects were created at the University of California, Berkeley, by engineers led by Hirotaka Sato and Michel Maharbiz as part of a programme funded by the Pentagon’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
