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uncrate: Nomad Desktop CNC Mill needs to show the dust mitigation system, or the dust created by milling the pinewood derby car.
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Reimagining Monopoly
jkottke: Mike Merrill reimagines the game of Monopoly to better represent the modern financial system by adding the banker as a player, convertible notes, and Series A financing. Each player starts with only $500. That’s a nice bit of cash, but it’s going to be expensive to build your capitalist empire. Baltic Avenue will cost…
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alexainslie: Creative Coding MOOC (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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likeapairofbottlerockets: tomewing: dynamofire: pewinternet: “Finally, the refrigerator will talk to my smartphone to tell it I need to order milk before I am out.” Many experts say the rise of embedded and wearable computing (the “Internet of Things”) will bring the next revolution in digital technology. The upsides: enhanced health, convenience, productivity; The downsides: challenges…
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Pew Research: The Internet of Things Will Thrive by 2025
I’m trying to figure out what it means that our B-school is talking about the internet of things without mentioning spime-wrangling or the ethics of everyware. kateoplis: “Here are the easy facts: In 2008, the number of Internet-connected devices first outnumbered the human population, and they have been growing far faster than have we. There…
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Mozilla breaks our hearts, adds DRM to Firefox
Mozilla breaks our hearts, adds DRM to Firefox mostlysignssomeportents: For months, I’ve been following the story that the Mozilla project was set to add closed source Digital Rights Management technology to its free/open browser Firefox, and today they’ve made the announcement, which I’ve covered in depth for The Guardian. Mozilla made the decision out of…
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peterschlehmil: saguaro balloon – ph. by Stuart Spicer
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Thinking slowly – Matt Gemmell
Thinking slowly – Matt Gemmell I’ve been thinking about this too. Writing long-hand with a fountain pen, drawing with a pencil on a toothsome piece of paper, are rich sensory experiences that I have approximated with a tablet, but not matched. The speed of thought afforded by the analog instruments (tools is too blunt) is…
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designculturemind: Bespoke Materials – A showcase of new materials and applications produced using additive manufacturing (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)