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Bookmarks for March 10th

anton — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:00:23 +0000

These are my links for February 28th through March 10th:

Canon Thermal Travel Mug EF 70-200 f/4.0 L IS USM Lens DSLR Lenses Full Frame 0141W867 – Vistek Canada Product Detail
"OMG WWII on FACEBOOK!" by Matthew Leeb on CollegeHumor
a modern adaptation of world war II for the american teenager.
Tube clock database – Hack a Day
[Brian] wrote in to show us a site he’s been working on for a while. He’s been building a tube clock database.
Search the PopSci Archives | Popular Science
PopSci has partnered with Google to offer their entire 137-year archive for free browsing.
‘Tron: Legacy’ director: ‘We are on a new server now’ | Hero Complex | Los Angeles Times
How to Set up Network Bonding in Ubuntu 6.10 | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials
Network Bonding, otherwise known as port trunking allows you to combine multiple network ports into a single group, effectively aggregating the bandwidth of multiple interfaces into a single connection.
CTFDDAC128MAG-1G1 – 128GB, 2.5-inch Solid State Drive , from Crucial.comUS
If you're looking for unhindered speed, Crucial's RealSSD™ C300 is here! The new 2.5-inch Crucial RealSSD C300 drive offers mobile and desktop users scorching-fast read speeds of up to 355MB/s. And because it has no moving parts, you will also enjoy a quieter, cooler, and more durable storage solution –and a better alternative to a traditional notebook hard drive.
tiny robot insects charm their way into our lives on [technabob]
No, these bug-eyed critters aren’t going to bite. On the contrary – these insect-inspired mini robots are actually quite harmless.
Samba/LDAP configuration on RHEL5
A straightfoward tutorial to configure Samba/LDAP as a Primary Domain Controller / Directory on RHEL5.
Poison Oak Productions
The Way Bobby Sees It is a gripping documentary about Bobby McMullen, a competitive mountain biker on a mission to race the most demanding downhill course in the country. Adding to the difficulty: Bobby is blind.

High School Teacher, ELECTROCUTED!

anton — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:35:24 +0000

Arc Attack puts on a shocking show for McCallum High School in Austin. No teachers were harmed in the production of this video.

OK Go Again

anton — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:50:51 +0000

Love the use of the Rube Goldberg machine to make a portion of the music.

Bookmarks for February 28th

anton — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:01:26 +0000

These are my links for February 23rd through February 28th:

Amazon.com: Roboni-i Programmable Gaming Robot: Toys & Games
Meet Roboni-i, a highly-intelligent robot that fuses interactive, remote-controlled gameplay with advanced robotic technology. Operated wirelessly using a handheld controller and featuring four processors and 16 sensors, Roboni-i can sense and respond to his environment, explore the room on its own, and even engage in games with other Roboni-i units. A great toy for young robotics enthusiasts, Roboni-i can also be linked to your computer, allowing to reprogram his behavior and upload customized games.
Free Coloring Book!
Just click the image above and you'll download a FREE 26 page coloring book featuring Elliott, Lucy, their super-cute pooch Lola and all their friends!
Just posted – Canon EOS-1D Mark IV in-depth review
The new model also gets an inevitable megapixel boost (to 16 MP), a full HD movie mode, 921K pixel screen and Dual DIGIC 4 processors.
Kitty vs. Robot. [VIDEO]
Kitty vs. Robot.
MightyOhm » AVR HV Rescue Shield
The AVR HV Rescue Shield is a high voltage parallel mode fuse programmer for Atmel AVR microcontrollers.
It currently supports the ATmega48/88/168/328P series and the ATtiny2313. The Rescue Shield is based on my Arduino-based AVR High Voltage Programmer, but with several new features and improvements.
Drilling perfectly centered holes
If you’ve ever been caught in the situation of needing to drill a clean straight hole down the center of a bolt or rod, you’ve probably tried and ended up with a broken bit or tilted hole, and a ton of cursing to boot.
SuperDroid Robots – Autonomous Robot Kits and More
Lux Research: Strategic advice for emerging technologies in nanotech, nanomaterials, solar, and power
WowWee’s breakthrough toys are flat guitars and drums – Feb. 2, 2010
Sounds a bit like the ThinkGeek Guitar Shirt, but mounted on paper. I'm requesting a review copy.
Ridata Lightning Series 32 GB 233x CompactFlash Memory Card
Now that I'm shooting RAW + jpg with my 50D I think it might be time to get a bigger CF card.

Bookmarks for February 23rd

anton — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:00:53 +0000

These are my links for February 19th through February 23rd:

The Bloom Box: a power plant for the home (video) — Engadget
Mini-Helicon Plasma Thruster for Space Travel – Breakthrough Awards Innovators 2009 – Popular Mechanics
Interbots :: We build character.
Sticker Specials – Printing by Sticker Giant
robots.net – Robot Builders Forming Hackerspace in Dallas
If you're in Dallas, join up and help out. Even if you're not local, they're accepting donations from like-minded folks, so throw a few dollars their way if you can.
ThinkGeek :: KGB Disappearing Ink Pen
ThinkGeek :: Miracle Berry Fruit Tablets
ThinkGeek :: Pogo Sketch iPhone/MacBook Stylus
Toy Fair 2010: Our Favorite Designs for the Young at Heart
Even more terrifying (in an awesome, mini-bot sort of way) is the new HEXBUG Ant, which rips across surfaces with its six rotating leg-wheels at lightning speed.
Woot : Toy Fair 2010: Day Two: We Didn’t Quite Believe It Either
We always like visiting HexBug because they're just so NICE to us! With the exception of the ThinkGeek booth, no one treats us as nicely as HexBug. We're so happy they make cool little robots. Because who doesn't love cool little robots? If they made something lame we'd have to make fun of them and we'd feel really bad since they always treat us like kings.

Bookmarks for February 19th

anton — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:01:52 +0000

These are my links for February 10th through February 19th:

We Just Can’t Help It….. | Joe McNally’s Blog
The camera’s not a camera, really. It’s an open door we need to walk through. It’s up to us to keep moving our feet.
Engage! Expo – February 16-17, 2010 – New York City
Will's presentation, "The Evolution of Entertainment, A Toy's Place" will look at toys, play, and the product development process from a new perspective.
TIA | Toy Fair
Zotero | Home
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.
Indie Ninja Robot Game ‘Plain Sight’ Gets Release Date – Shacknews – PC Games, PlayStation, Xbox 360 and Wii video game news, previews and downloads
Indie developer Beatnik Games has announced that its explosion-happy ninja robot deathmatch game Plain Sight will be released for download on PC on March 22, priced at $9.99.
Stop-Motion ‘T-Shirt War’ Turns Tees Into Flip Book | Underwire | Wired.com
Roboni-i | The World’s First Programmable, Interactive, Gaming Robot by Robonica
Paul | formspring.me
In Search of the Best Oven-Fried Buffalo Wings | Serious Eats
The Food Lab: In Search of the Best Oven-Fried Buffalo Wings | Serious Eats

T-SHIRT WAR!! (stop-motion music video)

anton — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:15:17 +0000

Bookmarks for February 9th

anton — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:00:02 +0000

These are my links for February 5th through February 9th:

Bestlink Netware
Some cool, cheap stuff.
‘Robot Unicorn Attack’ is as awesome as it sounds | EW.com
Warning: this post contains a serious time-suck, and you might not get anything else done.
Open3DP (Open 3D Printing)
Carl’s Response – “Wow, this is really cool. It’s probably the first replica of a moai that actually matches a real one – usually they are just eyeballed. … I’d love one of these models! … I have more data.”
We exchanged several emails. What fun! All of this is a great example of why the concept of Creative Commons licensing is important. We knew what our use rights were AND we had information about the data creator.
Fabbaloo – Fabbaloo Blog – 3D Collaboration Puts 700 Year Old Monolith In Your Hands
It's amazing what can happen when data is made free. It travels to places where it becomes useful.
Arduino 018 is released
The open-source Arduino environment makes it easy to write code and upload it to the i/o board. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The environment is written in Java and based on Processing, avr-gcc, and other open source software.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Playing a bit too much of this game, but it is seriously fun.
ThinkGeek :: Stainless Steel Wallet
Index of /releases/firebug/1.6X
The alpha code for firebug.
Booq Boa slimcase XL
A cool design for a laptop bag. Too bad they discontinued it.
Jishaku: Toys & Games
Interesting magentic game. Sounds like they are releasing a traveling version at the 2010 Toy Fair.

Bookmarks for February 5th

anton — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:00:39 +0000

These are my links for January 29th through February 5th:

Picture 278 « The Tinker « Robot and Ghost
JSLint, The JavaScript Code Quality Tool
National Robotics Week
AnnualCreditReport
The real free credit report. Run by the FTC and truly free.
System Shirts — Binary
Robotics Toys – Online Stores
Custom PCB Prototyping using a Laser Cutter
Michael Doornbos » iPad vs. a Rock
Comparing an iPad to a Rock. The iPad wins by a hair.
Bubble Calendar, a poster-sized calendar with a bubble to pop every day.
freeciv-forever – Project Hosting on Google Code

“A.D.” teaser (ZOMBIE ANIMATION)

anton — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:06:53 +0000

Awesome…