"Lo-tech" 8-bit ISA (PC-XT) bus adaptor for IDE (ATAPI, PATA) hard disks “for vintage PCs”. #retrocomputing #hardware
Marc Andreessen #pmarca vehemently opposing ‘the creation of multifamily overlay zones in Atherton’ #NIMBY
#video on #manufacturing a Le Corbusier style chaise longue from 19mm-thick #Portland #concrete reinforced with alkali-resistant chopped glass fibers and an alkali-resistant glass fiber scrim and an acrylic filler, laid over a #CNC routed MDF form.
#video #toread on the #Hacksmith studio, which has a quarter million dollars a month in overhead. 10% of revenue from YouTube, 40% sponsorships, 50% merch.
#video #toread on #vanlife by #Al-Mundo-con-el-Mate doing #tourism in #Bolivia
#video from #AvE of a botfly larva eating a mouse he caught in his trap. Possibly the worst thing I’ve ever seen.
The #assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, part of the #history of #Israel
#video #toread about #hoarding windshield wiper motors for #mechanisms
#video from today about the #Ukraine loss of Ukrainsk near the Donetsk capital #toread
#ElectroBOOM #video about the Veritasium long-parallel-wires experiment, showing the nicest demonstration so far of the time lag in connecting and disconnecting the far end at 11'55" #electronics
#video by economist Yi Wen at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University on how #China needed the #USA export control trade war to develop its domestic chip industry, because the alternative would have been to erect trade barriers in blatant violation of #WTO policies and get kicked out of the WTO. Mostly talking head footage with stock footage. #history #politics
#EEVBlog mailbag #video about Forrest Mims, piezoelectric transducers, Simpson panel voltmeters from 01976 with Panaplex 7-segment neon displays, an RF tank level sensor teardown (it sweeps a VCO to find nulls, comparing the tank reflection to a reflection from a known length of coax to avoid having to calibrate the VCO), and mostly a Tomlov “4K AF Max” microscope