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If I were going to be a super hero, it would be hard to choose between Carl Sagan Man and James Burke Man. I love this show, and now I can watch it to my heart’s content, for free. All three Connections series are available, as well as The Day The Universe Changed. [via adafruit]
A reader saw yesterday’s 500 kV interrupter arc video and pointed us to this amazing 1993 video footage of Miami’s Ives Dairy power substation failing in absolutely spectacular fashion. Unlike a lot of YouTube “disaster” footage, this clip from user gobo760 is extremely well annotated:
The new DSO Nano v2.0 from the Maker Shed is a digital storage oscilloscope designed for basic electronic engineering tasks. The Nano features an ARM Cortexâ„¢ M3 32 bit platform, which provides basic waveform monitoring. It has a 320*240 color LCD, micro SD card storage, portable probes, LiPo Battery, USB connection, and signal generator. Perfect […]
John Kestner made Tableau, a piece currently on display at the Saint Étienne International Design Biennale: Remember when we made a connection by handing someone a photo? As our social circle spreads across a wider geographic area, we look for ways to share experiences. Technology has reconnected us to some extent, but we fiddle with […]
Get your wide angle on with these lenses from Photojojo designed to be held up to your cell phone’s camera. [via Core77]
I really liked Charles Mangin’s USB floppy disk, so I was excited when I saw that he put together this how-to video explaining how to make your own.
I don’t know I needed a programmable logic device for anything before I watched this mock spot for Lattice Semiconductor’s MachXO2 PLD, but now I want to put one in every device I design!
