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Apollo 14. Here's some play video I shot of it years ago: https://youtu.be/lp9KVdrgi3Q?si=JvghqkITFLdmySKq&t=45 . All electro-mechanical too.

My kids attended the same high school district that this student's school, Canyon Crest Academy (CCA), is part of. My youngest has friends that attended CCA and I asked him once why he didn't want to attend (it's an open school district) -- his reply is "all they do is study for AP tests." So I'm thinking there might be other pressures (i.e. parental) to perform, and this student may have responded in a desperate fashion.

A giant Video Wall/Volume that is used to shoot movies and commercials built in as a giant circle with video Wall Ceiling. about 350 degrees around and 21 feet tall with 75 feet in diameter. This might be the biggest Volume on in North America. Full Tour of how it works!

Matt Stoller is tracking this: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-google-... (this is his BIG newsletter, you need to pay for further details)

I worked on PHS gear in the US for the Japanese market. We even had an experimental license to operate within our dev building. We tied into our office phone network so we could makes calls just like a desk phone. Nifty little handsets were tiny compared to early AMPS/CDMA chunkers....

They make the Starship effort look like a giant boondoggle. Sure, it might fly one day but won't be practical for anything but sucking up gov't $$$.

4 part series discussing NASA's Artemis program, focused on SpaceX and Blue Origin, and engineering problems remaining.

Clickspring: makes an authentic replica of The Antikythera Mechanism from raw metal stock. Also period-correct tools and craftsmanship. https://www.youtube.com/@Clickspring

I liked his test structure: write "I don't know" for minimal credit opposed to wasting his time with a false paragraph. Also, a very prepared prof.

Got a hold of a NS32081 and put in on protoboard in my turbo 8088 PC, interfacing via the 8-bit I/O bus (late 1980's.) Wrote a simple Turbo-C interface to read/write FPU instructions and data. Operations with 32-bit floats were about 4x faster than Turbo-C's floating point emulation. Was straightforward to program as I recall. But I can't recall where that protoboard went...

"My personal recollection of being a victim of the first bioterrorism attack in the history of the United States." (Refers to the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack)

Maybe a hybrid approach using Tilt Five headsets https://www.tiltfive.com/ . Easy to retheme a playfield, and your friends can watch in 3D as well.

The "resurgence" has been going on for 20 years! Not sure what to call it these days other than a fun expensive hobby...

Fordlandia 2.0?

It's an example using STM32CubeMx dev environment. ST supplies many examples, including this one. However, this walkthru helps beginners navigate some of the complexity in getting it running.

Other options are COX and Verizon 5G -- but they all keep their plans relatively the same speed/price 2-year deals. So now we have 4 broadband options, each with similar offerings and price. However, none of the service providers undercut the others in a price war...

These folks suspect lithium in our water causes obesity. They also support several citizen-science diet experiments:

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/

Ting announced planned service in my neighborhood a few years ago (So Cal) and started micro-trenching about a year later. Surprisingly our local ATT service announced fiber upgrades (replacing slow copper DSL) soon after and started pulling new cables overhead (we still have utility poles.) Whether coincidental or not the 50x speed upgrade was appreciated.

Posting for a friend: he built a tape recorder as a youth growing up in post-WWII Germany (1949).

https://sites.google.com/site/randyelwin/home/projects/build...

Typo - Ben Heck. (he's a well-known maker)

CNLohr has made the cheapest USB enabled microcontroller. Check out this project's github here: https://github.com/cnlohr/rv003usb

Magic Castle -- what a place to visit! The magic piano, creaky halls, parlor tricks... It's amazing to watch a close-up magician perform. He'll tell you what trick he's about to do, execute right under your nose, and your eyes see nothing but magic.

Lol! I'm reminiscing about Archer on Twitch this Saturday ( https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/archer-homebrew-tabl... ) with some obscure video and other crap. I taught KME all I know about pinball, right around his 10th birthday! All hail the GOAT!

Neat! Building your own pinball game is 90% mechanical, 90% electrical, 90% artwork, 90% software, 100% labor intensive! Good luck in completing it, and maybe take it to a pinball show that features home-brew games.

I got to help building this one: https://youtu.be/mbntYbjoYk8

As a pinhead I love this post and all the comments.

I sell pinball DVDs (a very boutique market) and our distributor shut down during COVID so I've been selling direct on eBay, very slowly. Except the past few months sales picked up. Not sure why since I don't advertise. Maybe some popular threshold has been reached so now pinball is the latest fad?

I hope this fad sticks around!

If you're playing a pin that's sitting in "cups" (prevents it from sliding) a non-tilting shove on the side will in fact lift the corner slightly -- I measured with a 3-axis accelerometer back in the day. Rather surprising...

Watch the movie "1917" for long takes. Short takes would ruin the harrowing experience the main characters suffer.

a) Convert your game to run the P-ROC system: https://pinballmakers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Then run this code (or modify it per your needs): https://github.com/mypinballs/indianajones

b) or repair your game.

The brown widows in my garage have orange hourglasses -- are they a different gang?

Road tires wear unevenly on the sides due to crowned streets. You should also flip rotating direction, assuming unidirectional tires.