Robonaut Has a Twitter Account
NASA’s robot will be destroying boarding the ISS soon.
It would be interesting to hear the designers of R2 discuss the project, I wonder how they came up with the face plate design.
Rob Knecht
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Roll Your Own Geospatial App
Paul Smith and A List Apart, the venerable interactive design publication, have a fantastic article discussing open source online mapping tools. In projects involving maps and related information I often wish for more control over the visual interface than what Google Maps provides. It’s nice to see some alternatives exist.
387 & 388
HTML-based projects from Andrey Yazev combine basic HTML elements and Javascript to create reactive compositions. A creatively playful take on a technology that is often entrenched in arguments of semantics and standardization.
Maker
“In art or hot rodding, I revel in the hand wrought elements and love to touch both the gloppy oil paint and the smooth finish of a hand-hammered aluminum fender. As an authenticity snob, the connection to the hand that crafted it means as much as the value of the object.”
- Mister Jalopy
“Knowledge Jockeying”
Rhizome.org’s post on aesthetics of the spreadsheet is an interesting look at information organization. Not to nerd out on databases, but I spend a lot of time working with grids. They’re my go-to in graphic design, 3D modeling, MySQL, pencil sketching, and even in navigating Chicago. I’ve definitely got a soft spot for a good table.
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- “Technological Disobedience”
- The Vesalius Sculpture (Thom Puckey 1948)
- Debra Baxter
- Robonaut Has a Twitter Account
- Elad Barouch - See Saw Bike
- Rafal Bujnowski - Wrong Works
- Roll Your Own Geospatial App
- All I want for Christmas is a guilloché machine
- color swim video switcher prototype
- Radius Installation
- Surface Mount Devices
- Color Swim Part Two
- 387 & 388
- Final Marks: The Art of the Carved Letter
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