#video of the #Maslow #CNC #2d-cutting router for 4×8 plywood, basically a #hanging-plotter using #25 roller chain on a 200:1-reduced DC motor with a relatively coarse shaft encoder on the motor side of the gearbox, with a couple of bricks weighting down the router. 8148 steps/rev encoder, ± 1/64th inch (.4 mm) or better, 48 inches/minute. Not all open source, but all at least cc-by-nc-sa. By BarSmith, aka BarbourSmith. US$350, not including the router or bricks.
"Maslow" #CNC source repositories, some cc-by-nc-sa, so not open source, others GPLv3, others PD
Discussion thread on #Maslow #CNC. Usually they do ⅛” (3mm) passes so 4 passes to cut ½” (12mm) plywood
One of #jacquesm’s photos of his #CNC windmill #plasma-cutting machine from 2008
auto racers cool themselves with shirts that have cold water running through tubing. The F.A.S.T. Cool Suit brand of these shirts costs US$565. #cool-suit #climate-control
I’ve never heard of CIA spy Evan McMullin before, but apparently he could be the next president of the #USA, but only if he doesn’t win too many votes and turn more states against #Trump. #politics
Vachani of Power Ventures is cleared of #spam charges from #Facebook by a #USA appeals court
#prostitution #human-rights #ACLU
information on backyard metal casting to make things out of metal (aluminum mostly) with amateur furnaces
“#Turkey’s President Tells Iraqi Leader to ‘Know His Place’” Erdogan refuses to withdraw troops at Bashiqa, #Iraq, near Mosul, where they are to fight #Daesh; also he personally insulted Haider al-Abadi. #politics
#Turkey has been training #peshmerga at Bashiqa, #Iraq? “The U.S.-backed assault on [Mosul] has been expected to begin this month.”
#Turkey’s Erdogan is angry #USA is still considering whether to extradite Gülen; #Iraq labels Turkish forces “occupiers”
#Putin did request officials of #Russia to stop sending their kids to schools abroad, claiming that it brings his regime’s schools into disrepute
Discussion thread on whether you could achieve “civilization” without cities — Mongols were a great empire of nomads
No strong evidence Mark Twain said, “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great,” just that Gay Zenola MacLaren said many years later that he had told her that when she was a little girl.
#Trump will be prosecuted for raping a 13-year-old girl in like 1994; Cheney Mason is the prosecuting attorney, while the victim is anonymous. #politics
The Committee to Protect Journalists says #Trump is a threat to freedom of speech. #censorship #human-rights #politics #USA
#Trump lied when he claimed he didn’t know anything about Temple Taggart McDowell, who he forced a kiss on in 1997. #politics
Lou Dobbs published 74-year-old Jessica Leeds’s home address and phone number, taken from public records, after the NYTimes published her accusation that #Trump had sexually assaulted her. #politics
Really embarrassing #Google screwups in interviewing
The developer who #Apple banned from writing apps for “review fraud” says that apparently it was his mother who did the review #fraud, apparently both on apps she developed and apps he transferred to her
textbook recommendations from 2011 to 2015 from lesswrong, with justifications, covering philosophy, cogsci, logic, economics, representation theory (?), various aspects of math (probability and statistics, calculus, abstract algebra, partial and ordinary differential equations, numerical methods, linear algebra, elliptic curves, commutative algebra), various aspects of physics (quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, electrodynamics, topology, special relativity), music theory, business, machine learning, algorithms, systems theory, self-help (!), linguistics, meta-ethics, decision-making, neuroscience, WWII, improv theater, criminal justice/criminology, animal behavior, and organic chemistry. #education
The Guardian claims work will end. #economics
#WHO Global #Health Observatory with life expectancy by country up to 2015.
#EU propose requiring prior restraint of speech to enforce #copyright on any user-generated content platform such as Facebook or YouTube. #human-rights
Opendesk is a #2d-cutting design exchange website (by the company Fabbed, which runs FabHub.io) with many open-source #furniture designs to #CNC route out of (mostly) 18mm Baltic birch plywood. Furniture makers listed on the site (who can thus submit quotes in response to enquiries from clients) pay a 38% markup: 8% for the designer, 30% for Opendesk. Currently they have 37 designs by 15 designers, and over 48 makers (“digital fabricators”) listed (probably around 100), including Pioppo Carpintería here in Buenos Aires, something like a dozen in France, 15 in England. tav's project
AHA is Stanford’s Agile #Hardware Center, which aims to produce a fully open-source #FPGA toolchain and their own reconfigurable SoC, among other things
