Year: 2008

Robotic ornithopter in-flight

Awesome slow-mo footage of a butterfly ornithopter from the Shimoyama-Matsumoto Laboratory, University of Tokyo, Japan. [via BotJunkie and Smart Machines] Artificial butterfly wing on a butterfly-type ornithopter

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Homemade New Year’s eve ball

Homemade New Year’s eve ball

Mactech’s homemade New Year’s eve ball! It’s 20 feet tall, made of two pieces of 3/4″ EMT with a coupler that wasn’t strong enough, so I taped some shims along the joint…guy wires to keep it from keeling over sideways. There are a couple of pulleys to hoist the ball.

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Cause of ZUNE leapyear problem – Freescale date routine

itsnotabigtruck writes – After doing some poking around in the source code for the Zune’s clock driver (available free from the Freescale website), I found the root cause of the now-infamous Zune 30 leapyear issue that struck everyone on New Year’s Eve. The Zune’s real-time clock stores the time in terms of days and seconds […]

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City of Books Papercraft Animation

This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo. Just captivating. Via Wooster Collective.

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CNC tree

CNC tree

My internet friend, David Erwin, had a crisis on his hands; the Christmas tree was a “brown, shedding, fire hazard and it ended up in the front yard on the 23rd.” Well, being a ShopBot owner (as well as the owner of the best darned mid-century modern door company out there, Crestview Doors) he did […]

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