Toaster mugging
March 5th, 2012
In collaboration with Andy Lee
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Egg/milk/bread/chicken casserole
February 9th, 2012Via a friend who’s mother made this extremely delicious dish I’d like to reproduce:
Take white bread, preferably old and soak it in milk then mix in an egg or two, and spices (parsley, garlic, salt pepper and whatever takes your fancy) and that is your stuffing. Rub the chicken with the same spices, stuff it with the bread and milk mixture and shove it to the oven for an unspecified length of time in an unspecified temperature. Good luck, and please report on the outcome!
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Hello worlds
February 8th, 2012
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HDMI to LVDS adapter for Raspberry Pi
February 7th, 2012
EiNSTeiN_, a user on the Raspberry Pi forums, posted schematics for a prototype HDMI to LVDS adapter, so that the device could be run with a low-end LCD screen. Cool. I hope he releases it under the CERN Open Hardware License…
www.raspberrypi.org/forum/projects-and-collaboration-general/first-design-for-an-hdmi-to-lvds-adapter#p32497
Schematics and board files (Eagle)
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Sketches from NY
February 7th, 2012
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OK Go video released, worked on by Noah Vawter
February 6th, 2012Congrats to Noah, who spent a lot of time designing and calculating how to get in-tune sounds out of weird objects for this piece!
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US Patent 7070138
February 1st, 2012
I think this is for a fishing reel. I want a tshirt of it. When I was in high school we used to print patents on laser printers and use turpentine and an iron to transfer it onto tshirts…
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Visual interpretation
January 14th, 2012Related to visual interpretation in complex systems:
The view afforded by MRI led to a new causal story: Back pain was the result of abnormalities in the spinal discs, those supple buffers between the vertebrae. The MRIs certainly supplied bleak evidence: Back pain was strongly correlated with seriously degenerated discs, which were in turn thought to cause inflammation of the local nerves. Consequently, doctors began administering epidurals to quiet the pain, and if it persisted they would surgically remove the damaged disc tissue.
But the vivid images were misleading. It turns out that disc abnormalities are typically not the cause of chronic back pain. The presence of such abnormalities is just as likely to be correlated with the absence of back problems, as a 1994 study published in The New England Journal of Medicine showed. The researchers imaged the spinal regions of 98 people with no back pain. The results were shocking: Two-thirds of normal patients exhibited “serious problems” like bulging or protruding tissue. In 38 percent of these patients, the MRI revealed multiple damaged discs. Nevertheless, none of these people were in pain. The study concluded that, in most cases, “the discovery of a bulge or protrusion on an MRI scan in a patient with low back pain may frequently be coincidental.”
From ” Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us,” Jonah Lehrer
November 30th 2006 : m.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/ff_causation/all/1
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Grassroots Mapping Kickstarter: get a balloon kit
January 9th, 2012
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Bulk cubes of metal, wood, glass, soil, and stone for real Minecrafting
January 3rd, 2012
I dunno why you need shapeways when you can order full-size materials in cube form from Alibaba, mostly minimum order ~10 tons:
Limestone cubes
Granite cubes (various colors)
Metal cubes (aluminium, brass, copper, iron, lead, and zinc)
Tantalum cubes (toxic?)
Glass cubes
Wooden cubes
More wooden cubes
Soil cubes
even food:
Bouillon cubes
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