by pm | Jul 31, 2016 | Art, Engineering
I connected and programmed a set of LED lights and an Arduino to make a Jacob’s Ladder effect for the fluid movement water ballet. The show is called “Science Fair”. The LED strips are of the Neopixel style, though the are an off-brand. They are...
by pm | Jul 31, 2016 | Science, Society
“Yesterday I watched this very well done and visually incredible movie – Chasing Ice – which shows the drastic disappearance of many glaciers. And then I wake up to hear the news of the horrible and historic flooding in Ellicott City. (And we have...
by pm | Jul 31, 2016 | Engineering
by pm | Jul 30, 2016 | Engineering
I made a wire grid for polarizing microwave-frequency light. The wires are 0.0014″ = 0.036mm in diameter, spaced 0.0044″ = 0.112mm apart. There are about 1400 wires stretched across the diameter of this ring. The brown crud is flux from soldering the wires...
by pm | Jul 30, 2016 | Art, Engineering, Science, Society
Ron Howard miniseries, futurical fiction about a crewed mission to Mars in 2033. “This November, the National Geographic Channel will take audiences into outer space in a way we haven’t seen before. From producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer comes Mars, a...
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