Oh, sure, they show all the scenes where he nails it. But how many skinned knuckles did he suffer through to get this good?
Category Archives: Video
You All Sound Alike to Me
Did Someone Drop a Minus Sign?
A 275-foot smokestack falls the wrong way after the demolition charges go off. I hope they blamed the kids who got to set off the detonator for screwing it up.
Unjiffy Pop
Grab Your Gears(s)
The Sadness is Nowhere Near Infinite
Get a Grip
Balloon filled with ground coffee makes ideal robotic gripper
Particulate materials have a so-called jamming transition, which turns their behavior from fluid-like to solid-like when the particles can no longer slide past each other.
This phenomenon is familiar to coffee drinkers familiar with vacuum-packed coffee, which is hard as a brick until the package is unsealed.
Pretty neat (other than the part where they talk about a vacuum sucking the air out — it’s the external pressure that forces the air movement.)
Larry, Moe and Buzzy
Hidden No Longer
High-Speed Videos: The Hidden World of Insect Flight
Can’t get enough of high speed insect videos.
Recursion, Lego Style
MakerLegoBot is made of Lego, makes things out of Lego, is so meta it hurts
Building things out of Lego? Lots of fun. Building a thing out of Lego that itself builds other things out of Lego? That’s totally mindblowing, and that’s what Mindstorm master Will Gorman managed here with his MakerLegoBot masterpiece. The machine takes input from a PC running MLCAD, a sort of industrial design tool for blocknauts, and then churns out anything you like — so long as it is comprised of 1×2, 2×2, 3×2, 4×2, and 8×2 bricks.
All we need is a LEGO robot to play with the finished product, and we’re all set.