darksky.org
The Oregon Outback Dark Sky Network (ODSN) has completed the first phase of a multi-phased project to establish a landscape-level International Dark Sky Sanctuary within the largest, contiguous dark sky zone in the lower 48 United States.
dicebreaker.com
The groundbreaking Dune board game changed everything - and then vanished.
I have the original 1979 edition and it’s an incredible game, as well as a big part of why Dune has stayed top-of-mind for me for decades.
koin.com
The barriers are like hinged airplane hangar doors with shielded upper view screens. The estimated cost of the local upgrade was estimated at $4.5 million, including renovations to the main west entry and to employee entrances on the north and side sides of the building.
Just waiting for these to be sidestepped or confounded in some simple and unexpected way.
youtube.com
Dramatization of how photographs are transmitted by wire, an exciting new technology in the 1930s.
I love these sorts of old videos, where more complex topics are explained in terms of physical analogs that people can relate to. A lost art.
github.com
Ravi is a dialect of Lua, featuring limited optional static typing, JIT and AOT compilers
technoblogy.com
A single AA or AAA battery would be an ideal low-cost power source for a small AVR-based project, but unfortunately they only provide 1.2 to 1.5V, and even the low-voltage versions of the AVR chips need at least a 1.8V supply.
The solution is to use a simple voltage-doubler circuit to step up the voltage. The voltage doubler uses an oscillator to charge up two capacitors through diodes. The voltages across the capacitors are effectively put in series, creating double the supply voltage.
inventionandtech.com
Having a car was one thing, but delving into its innards with a socket wrench was another altogether—exactly the sort of thing the crewcut-sporting squares back in the suburbs would do. In an age when complex technology was the franchise of big business and the builders of the H-bomb, being good with tools seemed uncool. But Muir’s folksy writing—and the counterculture-friendly art that accompanied it—helped turn the tide in reconciling hippies to technology.
youtube.com
You simply need 198 1x2 LEGO bricks to calculate pi. Easy! Building a circle with LEGO bricks may seem illegal but brick bending is a fine art.
This was a fun little activity that I did with my nephew on Pi Day.
people.com
Illuzzi confirms with PEOPLE that the piece was first released in 2001 as a part of a giveaway of a total of 30 Legos — which also included silver and platinum pieces.
github.com
A ruler application for Mac OS X