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Sign Win

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Married To The Sea

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Married To The Sea

Build your own magnetic levitator

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Here’s a great magnetic levitator build. [Scott Harden] dug up the link after seeing that awesome rotating globe this morning. This version hangs objects below an electromagnet but it has a sensor system to provide a constant distance between magnet and object even if the payloads are a different weight. This is done with a couple of infrared sensors. One acts as a reference detector, always viewing an IR LED in order to get a baseline measurement. That measurement is compared to a second detector mounted slightly lower. The circuit adjusts the electromagnetic field, making sure the object is always breaking the lower beam but never interrupting the reference beam. No microcontroller needed, this is handled with a couple of OpAmps. See it in action after the break.

Being A Dickhead’s Cool

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September 10, 2010 Making fun of hipsters has been taken to the next level.

Probably Bad News: Ad Placement FAIL

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Nostalgia: Saturday Morning Cartoons

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I think that in most western countries that Saturday mornings was and is for cartoons. As a child of the 80’s a part of the nostalgia for me is remembering the cartoons I used to watch on TV. We had only two channels back then and it was in Spanish, but cartoons are cartoons.

Today I still check TV scheduling to see if Boomerang is showing cartoons from the 80’s, I love watching them again especially when feeling nostalgic or having nothing to do. I can’t appreciate modern cartoons nor the modernizations of older cartoons with newer technique and drawings so I never watch them.

Here follows an infographic with some facts and Saturday morning schedule of the last two decades of cartoons.

I know all those cartoons with the exception of Crusader Rabbit and Barbie. I used to watch all those over the course of my childhood plus more like Speed Racer, Candy Candy, ThunderCats, Heidi and of course the classics of Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies.

I read some weblogs of geeks who introduce their kids to all Star Wars movies so that they too can enjoy what their parents enjoyed. Most kids do end up liking it very much too. I think if I had kids I would get them DVD’s of really classic cartoons and movies that where done before computer animations like we have today became standard.

Not to say I have yet to watch that DVD of Casablanca I bought ages ago.

Rock Band of the Future

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This is how they would have played Rock Band in Back to the Future Part II. You know, if Rock Band had existed back in the 80s when the Back to the Future movies were filmed, so they could have predicted how Rock Band might look in the future. Only the future to them was 2015, which is just five years away from us in the here and now, and their late 80s predictions of our near-future are turning out to be so thirty years away.

Anyhoo.

Check out this brilliantly-made video that shows what everybody’s favorite video game music simulator might look like in the future. Something like this might put a lot of professional music instructors out of work.

If Chewie & Han were Calvin & Hobbes…

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Man, I miss Calvin & Hobbes. I actually wrote a college paper on the themes and motifs of that daily comic strip, and it got fairly deep. Earned me an A+. But I digress.

Found this awesome mashup — which recreates Bill Watterson’s art style with absolute perfection — over at 9gag. It manages to be cute, rebellious, and clever all at once. It’s a t-shirt design drawn by professional illustrator Chris Wahl. The shirt will run you about $22.

(via Coilhouse) I chuckled hardcore.

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I chuckled hardcore.