Month: March 2011

Dan Reetz Talk at Personal Archiving 2011

Innovator and Imagineer Dan Reetz talks book scanning, hardware hacking, camera control, and cultural impact at Personal Digital Archive 2011, hosted by The Internet Archive in San Francisco.

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The Warmest Euphonium

Neat! Katietes on Instructables knitted this cozy for her euphonium.

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Why Its Really, Really Hard to Make Light Bulb Filaments

Continuing his wonderful series of videos on the unappreciated wonders of engineering that surround us here’s Engineer Guy on the truly amazing process required to produce a common incandescent light-bulb filament. As always, Bill displays a fantastic ability to produce short, engaging, entertaining video segments that will appeal to and educate both the totally uninitiated and those who, like myself, are foolish enough to think we know a thing or two. [Thanks, Bill!]

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How-To: Chocolate Lava Cake

Pink peppercorn whipped cream finishes off this chocolate lava cake recipe by YouTuber Shyaporn Theerakulstit. It’s also apparently his birthday– hooray!

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EEG-controlled wire flight

I totally want to try this. Yehuda Duenyas, AKA XXXY, is an MFA student in RPI’s MFA program. His project, Ascent, uses EEG controlled performer flight as its centerpiece. Lauren controls her “ascent” by concentration read by an Emotive EEG headset.

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