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.
- Harrison, Erika. “Roulettes in Spherical Geometry.”
These antique machines are absolutely stunning in their complexity, patina, and operation. The engineering involved in creating such a tool is mind boggling. Most are directly hand or foot powered with a gear reduction system similar to what milling and lathe equipment still use today.
After seeing the video below, I almost want to move to France for a year and ghost some old watch makers.
This afternoon I received an e-mail notification that the PCB for color swim‘s programmable video switcher has just been shipped. I put this design together a couple weeks ago, and if all goes well, it’ll be our first draft for an ongoing electronics/video project.
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