As always, you can click through to get to xkcd and view the hover tag.
Of course the real reason that these techniques aren’t being used in these ways is the massive conspiracy that suppresses the proper exploitation of the phenomena.
Daily Archives: October 20, 2010
In Celebration of Round Numbers
If it seems I’ve been light on original posts lately, it’s because the weekend weather has been absolutely gorgeous here lately, and I’ve been spending my free time outdoors (when I wasn’t jousting with a headcold, as I did over the holiday weekend). Anyway, I grabbed my 500th geocache this past weekend (woohoo!); Lake Fairfax Park had recently been repopulated with caches, so iI spent a rather nice couple of hours doing the ~4 mile loop to find eight containers. I’m really liking my new GPS receiver
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.