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
Year: 2008
Selecting row number in MySQL
Michael Yakobi sent us this clever use of MySQL’s user defined variable syntax to return row numbers in a result set: Occasionally, one wants to execute a query and have the rows in the results set numbered. This could be done using a variable. For example: SELECT @row := @row + 1 as row, t.* […]
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.
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 […]
Fuzzlab uber effects box
Beavis Audio Research brings us the Fuzzlab, an fusion of 4 classic DIY guitar distortion circuits into one hefty tweakable unit. The construction was a very long and educational process – Now that all is said and done, I learned a great many things from this project. I made a large number of mistakes and […]
City of Books Papercraft Animation
This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo. Just captivating. Via Wooster Collective.
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 […]
