Brick laying robots and the democratizing of precision
I recently found out about the architectural work of Gramazio & Kohler who use industrial robots to build highly patterned brick walls. . I’m very intrigued by the possibility of creating highly complex, repeating, organic constructions by harnessing the high-precision capabilities of robotic construction. This is an obvious and natural […]
Making Typeface Video
Here’s a charming little video of an old man making typeface. Apparently it’s a trailer for a movie. Videos like this just make me smile.
Maps of science
This is literally a mapping of the influence that various scientific fields have on each other generated by Eignfactor.org: Orange circles represent fields, with larger, darker circles indicating larger field size as measured by Eigenfactor scoreâ„¢. Blue arrows represent citation flow between fields. An arrow from field A to field […]
Reuben Margolin Video
Reuben Margolin is a fantastic, kinetic artist who makes stunning wave machine. Take a few minutes out of your day and watch this Make video featuring him. Reuben and I are fellow member of Applied Kinetic Arts. Speaking of AKA, we are doing another show at Maker Faire this year […]
Almost Scientific Update: rockets, bridges, viruses, plasma cannons, self-replicating machines and maybe even a lamp
Hello all — First off, I’m sorry if anyone had any technical problems with the Almost Scientific blog over the past few weeks. Apparently it was hacked and had a dozen or so malware links in the footer.php file. It took some time to root out the problem and install […]
Roman Signers Paraphuie I
While I was away at the Lightwave show in Dublin I took a brief side trip to Paris. While there I went to a really great exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo called Gakona where I saw this piece by Roman Signer called Paraphuie I. (paraphuie is french for umbrella) […]
A Number of Numbers
A Number of Numbers
Quotes on Design
From Quotes on Design Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. — D. […]
Slide Rules for Nuclear Blasts and other jems
Spend some time over at the Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Museum Collection where you will find all kinds cool instruments related to radioactivity including images (and descriptions) of various slid rules used to calculate the effects of nuclear blasts. The Nuclear Weapons Effects Computer No. 1 was manufactured by Blundell […]
This New Ocean: The History of Space Flight
This New Ocean: The History of Space Flight is a fantastic, brief and broad history of space flight focusing, obviously, on or means of getting into space — rockets! Allot of great images and information. There is even a midterm and final exam for the eager.
Photos from the Neuron Chamber send off party
Thanks Benna! Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
Kanye West + Jay-Z * GRL = dope
This video is great. It’s a new Jay-Z song, produce by Kanye, and the video is by Evan Roth of GRL. Oh … and the code used to generate the video is open source. Jay-Z on iLike – Get updates inside iTunes