cylindrical "Fuller calculator" #slide-rule uses a spiral scale with brass pointers (like using calipers to transfer a distance along a single linear scale) to calculate to five significant figures #video
Halden calculator circular #slide-rule #video
Matt Chasen’s Hexa Lift #eVTOL 18-propeller 195-kg single-person #flying machine, actually flying. The batteries clip directly onto the motors. #mechanical #video
#manufacturing a plywood toy gun that makes noise #video #toread
#Microsoft provides a script to install #dotnet core on #Debian, and also .debs and tarballs
#Microsoft currently supports #dotnet core on #Debian 10, 11, and 12, and has instructions for installing from their servers
apparently the US #demoscene was mostly dead by 02019, Synchrony being the biggest demoparty, but was never that big
The Revision #demoscene demoparty seems to have had on the order of 300 attendees last month.
there were 80 demoparties and 6000 prods in the #demoscene in 02023 #video
review of Tesla #Cybertruck. It goes fast: 60 “mph” in 2.87s, 11.15 seconds for a quarter “mile”. They like the sound system, but found the four-wheel steering hard to steer. “It is absolutely weird and wonderful in its own kind of stupid and excessively flawed way. (...) can stop bullets and outpace a Lamborghini.” #video
review of Tesla #Cybertruck in which its stainless skin successfully stops 9mm bullets, but two 9mm bullets in the same spot was enough to crack it. .17 HMR (700+ m/s) went through the skin, and an AR-15 round went right through the door. No slo-mo. #video #toread