The Melting Pot is an older ‘visualizer’ project, however it was way ahead of it’s time. Developed back in 2001 by Itiro Siio and Noyuri Mima, it’s purpose is to bridge the physical distance between a team that is scattered across an office building together by bringing the them together using sweet, sweet coffee.
Britons John Bryant and Chris Sangwin have written a book called How Round is Your Circle? that looks incredible. I haven’t read it (yet), but the promotional website by itself has me sold already. Highlights include Reuleaux tetrahedra, square-hole drilling, and self-righting polyhedra.
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Carry a complete radio shack on your back with this tutorial on how to get hammy on a hike.
I’ve just spent way too much time browsing the CubeDude Flickr gallery of legendary characters in Lego form. The various Star Wars characters are fantastic, the Walter Sobchak (of The Big Lebowski) makes me want to cry in joy, and the in-process sketches are fascinating. Enjoy! [ via The Coolist ]
Who is eating all these pancakes?! PT @ MAKE writes: Wow! This robot sorts over 400 pancakes per minute. Right around 1:15 it gets amazing, it seems like it’s sped up, but they need to slow it down in the video to show it off! Computer vision, robots, and pancakes; I don’t think this morning […]
The 26th Chaos Communication Congress is accepting submissions for papers, lectures, and workshops: 26C3 is the annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) in Berlin, Germany.First held in 1984, it since has established itself as “the European Hacker Conference” attracting a diverse audience of thousands of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopists from […]
