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Monthly Archives: January 2022
Working Halo Rail Gun
Link Inspired by Halo Infinite, Charles from Hacksmith Industries was enlisted to build a weapon that looks like the game’s MA5 assault rifle. Their real-world version uses electromagnetic coils to accelerate and launch projectiles, much like the U.S. Navy’s railgun … Continue reading
Cloudnola Flipping Out Clock
| Buy A more compact version of Cloudnola’s flip clock. Like the TextTime, it tells time using words instead of numbers. The battery-operated clock can sit on a tabletop or be wall-mounted. It’s available in white-on-black or black-on-white with a red … Continue reading
NEW GUIDE: CircuitPython on Raspberry Pi (Bare Metal / No OS) #CircuitPython #AdafruitLearningSystem
A new guide: CircuitPython on Raspberry Pi (Bare Metal / No OS) by Scott Shawcroft The Raspberry Pi single board computers (SBCs for short) are normally used with the Raspberry Pi OS. This is great for gaming and web browsing, … Continue reading
Here’s The Full 2022 Tour Schedule
Ultiworld Disc Golf’s schedule page is now updated for 2022 with the full gamut of pro Majors and DGPT Elite Series and Silver Series events. Each event on the schedule has its own page with information about the event, related … Continue reading
Speech-to-Text Real-Time Display
Link Wearing a mask is one of the most important things we can do during the pandemic. But we never really thought about how that might impact those who rely on lip reading. Programmer Kevin Lewis came up with a … Continue reading
The Evolution of Star Trek Warp Jumps
Link Star Trek’s starships have been warping through space since The Original Series debuted back in 1966. John DiMarco put together this compilation that shows how warp speed jumps have changed over the years, starting with the 1979 release of … Continue reading
Metal UFO Fidget Spinner
| Buy This awesome metal spinner toy from MCZHI Manufacturing looks like a spaceship out of 1950s science fiction. They come in stainless steel or titanium and can be equipped with glowing tritium tubes for an added effect. The small model … Continue reading
75 Post-Punk and Hardcore Concerts from the 1980s Have Been Digitized & Put Online: Fugazi, GWAR, Lemonheads, Dain Bramage (with Dave Grohl) & More
Between 1985 and 1988, a teenager by the name of Sohrab Habibion was attending punk and post-punk shows around the Washington, DC area. What set him apart was the bulky video camera he’d bring to the show and let roll, … Continue reading
How to Decode NASA’s Message to Aliens
When NASA spent close to a billion dollars on the Voyager program, launching a pair of probes from Cape Canaveral in 1977, its primary purpose was not to find intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The program grew out of ambitions for a … Continue reading
Discovered: Lost Johnny Cash Concert Recorded by the Grateful Dead’s LSD Chemist Owsley Stanley (1968)
On January 13, 1968, Johnny Cash recorded his famous live concerts within the walls of Folsom State Prison, California, a week into what would be one of his busiest years of touring. While Columbia Records worked on trimming down the … Continue reading