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Sean Michael Ragan
I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.
Latest from Sean Michael Ragan
11/12/2010
Blue LEDs on top, gold underneath. I love the shout of glee at 11 seconds when the image first appears....
11/12/2010
Renowned webcomic artist Randall Munroe built a submersible ROV starting with a commercially-available parts kit: The kit comes with a...
11/12/2010
Retired Navy patternmaker and former shop teacher Charlie Kested was 71, in 2000, when he first fired up his scroll...
11/11/2010
A comment on this morning’s cometarium post reminded me of this famous axiom in the history of science: “No scientific...
11/11/2010
As evidence, nothing beats one's own senses: I'll have to see that for myself. But some experiments are too expensive,...
11/11/2010
This mechanical model of a comet's orbit, based on the action of elliptical gears, is dated to 1766, and is...
11/10/2010
Sparkles, here, is the creation of LA hackerspace denizen Matt Pinner, based on a concept by Sean Bonner. More pics...
11/10/2010
And quite an effective one, two, judging by this video from YouTuber Designbyg. Rain Noe, who brought us last week's...
11/09/2010
A "whiffletree" is a mechanical digital-to-analog converter. Brilliant science-and-technology documentarian Bill Hammack, professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the...
11/09/2010
Born in Brooklyn on this date in 1934, galactic citizen Carl Sagan—scientist, educator, advocate, author, artist, interstellar diplomat—passed away in...
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