June 2011
31 posts
Static electricity: how does it work? →
Static electricity is your friend… ._.
For many of us, static electricity is one of the earliest encounters we have with electromagnetism, and it’s a staple of high school physics. Typically, it’s explained as a product of electrons transferred in one direction between unlike substances, like glass and wool, or a balloon and a cotton T-shirt (depending on whether the demo is in a...
Good Times with Bad Filters →
Glad to know I’m not throwing money away buying the good filters.
Here’s a 100% crop of a bumper sticker across the parking lot shot first with no filter, second with 5 stacked high end UV filters, and then with 5 stacked low grade UV filters.
100% crops of a bumper sticker shot through no filters, 5 stacked good UV filters, and 5 stacked cheap UV filters.
Now stacking 5 filters...
LEGO Moulding Machine →
Youtube video on the Flickr page if you want to learn more:
The set consists of two moulding machines, the first was a replica of the original hand operating injector back from 1949. The second, Larger one is copy of the current Moulder that LEGO uses today that … well made the bricks that made this model :)
Each model has working features - the little one can ‘press’ the...
“You can tell if it’s your own plan by how lost you feel. People who do...”
– Niniane’s Blog: A quote I like
VG DOGZ
probertson:
Can you name them all?
Rands In Repose: The Anatomy of a Notification →
Always entertaining.
In 7th grade I was asked to write a report on clepsydras. I had to wait a week until my Mom drove me to the library just to figure out that a clepsydra was a water clock. A week. Can you imagine a world where you couldn’t curl up on your couch eating Doritos and cottage cheese and simply click a link on your iPad to learn everything about David Hasselhoff?
I can’t.
