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How to make an atomic bomb in your own kitchen–well, practically! by Bob Bale

How to make an atomic bomb in your own kitchen–well, practically! by Bob Bale

I have neat friends that send me interesting things in the mail, after a bit of travel I came home to this rare 1951 book called “How to make an atomic bomb in your own kitchen–well, practically!” by Bob Bale – I just started reading it, and so far it’s a great, if you can […]

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Stop motion film of retro video games using household objects

Stop motion film of retro video games using household objects

Here’s a really neat stop motion film of retro video games using household objects – [via] – Link. Related: Frogger by PES – Link. Stop motion LEGO video – Link. How King Kong was made…the first one – Link. Stop Motion Animation, the Easy Way – With iStopMotion, making Gumby is less pokey. MAKE 02 […]

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The ROBOTS are coming! – 1953

The ROBOTS are coming! – 1953

Interesting look back, forward – at robotics and computers from Mechanix Illustrated – 1953 (self-driving cars, robot elephants, prime number crunching computers, automatic factories, automatic sewing machines, self replicating Von Neumann machines) – “Our civilization is being invaded by a horde of mechanical men who are determined to change our way of life. But there’s […]

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Tringo – quick review

Tringo – quick review

Last year we posted about virtual world resident Kermitt Quick and a game he made game called “Tringo” in Second Life (an online multiplayer world) – Tringo is like Bingo and Tetris all in one. In the virtual world it was a huge hit, and the game was licensed by a gameboy game publisher, from […]

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