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What We've Done to the Mississippi River: An Explainer - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
"Rivers change course, as you can see in the beautiful map below, which shows the river's meanderings." LOOK AT THAT MAP
engineering  environmental-engineering  rivers  floods  Mississippi  maps  history 
may 2011 by Vaguery
The Giant’s Shoulders #35 is out! « The Giant’s Shoulders
"The 35th edition of The Giant’s Shoulders is up at Jost a mon!  Fëanor has put together an excellent illustrated edition of the carnival; many thanks to him!

The next edition will be hosted by Darwin’s Bulldog at The Dispersal of Darwin; entries can be submitted directly to the host blog or through BlogCarnival.com."
engineering  history-of-science  blogging  blog-carnival 
may 2011 by Vaguery
Flash Crash Analysis - May 6'th 2010 - Part 4 - Nanex
"While analyzing HFT (High Frequency Trading) quote counts, we were shocked to find cases where one exchange was sending an extremely high number of quotes for one stock in a single second: as high as 5,000 quotes in 1 second! During May 6, there were hundreds of times that a single stock had over 1,000 quotes from one exchange in a single second. Even more disturbing, there doesn't seem to be any economic justification for this. In many of the cases, the bid/offer is well outside the National Best Bid/Offer (NBBO). We decided to analyze a handful of these cases in detail and graphed the sequential bid/offers to better understand them. What we discovered was a manipulative device with destabilizing effect."
trading  financial-systems  design-automation  complex-systems  emergent-design  engineering  data-analysis  skynet 
august 2010 by Vaguery
[1006.3518] Graphene: A sub-nanometer trans-electrode membrane
"Isolated, atomically thin conducting membranes of graphite, called graphene, have recently been the subject of intense research with the hope that practical applications in fields ranging from electronics to energy science will emerge. Here, we show that when immersed in ionic solution, a layer of graphene takes on new electrochemical properties that make it a trans-electrode. The trans-electrode's properties are the consequence of the atomic scale proximity of its two opposing liquid-solid interfaces together with graphene's well known in-plane conductivity. We show that several trans-electrode properties are revealed by ionic conductivity measurements on a CVD grown graphene membrane that separates two aqueous ionic solutions. Despite this membrane being only one to two atomic layers thick, we find it is a remarkable ionic insulator with a very small stable conductivity that depends on the ion species in solution.…"
nanotechnology  molecular-design  graphene  engineering 
june 2010 by Vaguery
The Age of Graphical Computing « Rod Carvalho's web notebook
"Ron Doerfler has created a truly gorgeous 2010 calendar titled The Age of Graphical Computing. Ron has transformed nomography into a form of art."
nomograms  calendar  mathematics  nanohistory  engineering  graphic-design 
june 2010 by Vaguery
[1006.1126] Body-and-cad Geometric Constraint Systems
"Motivated by constraint-based CAD software, we develop the foundation for the rigidity theory of a very general model: the body-and-cad structure, composed of rigid bodies in 3D constrained by pairwise coincidence, angular and distance constraints. We identify 21 relevant geometric constraints and develop the corresponding infinitesimal rigidity theory for these structures. The classical body-and-bar rigidity model can be viewed as a body-and-cad structure that uses only one constraint from this new class. As a consequence, we identify a new, necessary, but not sufficient, counting condition for minimal rigidity of body-and-cad structures: nested sparsity. This is a slight generalization of the well-known sparsity condition of Maxwell."
engineering  mathematics  rigidity-theory  geometry  group-theory  formalization  models 
june 2010 by Vaguery
makerfaire.com: Maker Faire Detroit 2010: Call for Entries
"We are now accepting entries for the 1st Annual Maker Faire Detroit, July 31 and August 1, 2010 at The Henry Ford. This year's focus is on Young Makers, and we are excited to be engaging Makers of all ages around innovation, inspiration and education. We look forward to reviewing your application."
engineering  Makers  maker-culture  local  Detroit  call-for-papers 
march 2010 by Vaguery
Shit happens, or how I learned to love the incident | The IT Skeptic
"This seems a reversal of some things I have said in the past about the need for change control. I said that "shit happens" is not an excuse any more. I still believe that. Just because some incidents will remain unpreventable doesn't mean that many others can't be prevented. Just because fixing a problem in one place means higher risks will be taken elsewhere doesn't mean we shouldn't fix the problems. And just because complex systems are impossible to stop breaking doesn't mean that there isn't negligence behind some breakages."
project-management  management  risk-management  cultural-assumptions  engineering  complex-systems  failure 
march 2010 by Vaguery
Numerical Ruby NArray
"NArray is an Numerical N-dimensional Array class. Supported element types are 1/2/4-byte Integer, single/double-precision Real/Complex, and Ruby Object. This extension library incorporates fast calculation and easy manipulation of large numerical arrays into the Ruby language. NArray has features similar to NumPy, but NArray has vector and matrix subclasses."
matrices  library  ruby  mathematics  gem  engineering  nudge 
march 2010 by Vaguery
Technology Review: A 50-Watt Cellular Network
"Over the past year, VNL, based in Haryana, India, has reengineered the traditional technology of the dominant cellular standard, called GSM, in order to create base stations that only require between 50 and 150 watts of power, supplied by a solar-charged battery. The components can be assembled and booted up by two people and mounted on a rooftop in six hours."
engineering  infrastructure  cell-network  developing-countries  disintermediation-in-action  innovation  adhockery 
february 2010 by Vaguery
Upper Mismanagement | The New Republic
"Up until World War I, the archetypal manufacturing CEO was production oriented—usually an engineer or inventor of some kind. Even as late as the 1930s, business school curriculums focused mostly on production. Khurana notes that many schools during this era had mini-factories on campus to train future managers."
via:boingboing  manufacturing  engineering  management-failure  financial-crisis  entrepreneurship-as-pathology 
december 2009 by Vaguery
Make: Online : Open source hardware 2009 - The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2009
"Welcome to definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2009. First up - What is open source hardware? These are projects in which the creators have decided to completely publish all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of materials, parts list, drawings and "board" files to recreate the hardware - they also allow any use, including commercial. Similar to open source software like Linux, but this hardware centric."
open-source  open-hardware  makers  engineering  engineering-design  hobbies  reference  opensource  DIY  electronics  howto 
december 2009 by Vaguery
Airminded · The superweapon and the Anglo-American imagination — III
awesome
illustration  engineering  retrofuture  weaponry  science-fiction  steampunk 
november 2009 by Vaguery
Open Design Projects
"Extensive research has been done to analyze the phenomenon of open source software development from various perspectives. By contrast little is known about open source development of tangible objects, so–called open design, so far. Until recently, limitations to the availability of successful empirical examples of this ‘new innovation model’ outside software may have been a key reason for this gap.

This paper contributes to the literature on the open source mode of product development by providing a quantitative study (N = 85) of open design projects. Our goal is to explore the landscape of open source development in the world of atoms, to analyze project characteristics, structures, and success, and to investigate similarities and dissimilarities to open source software development."
open-source  openness  open-design  engineering  collaboration  industrial-design  intellectual-property  community  overview 
november 2009 by Vaguery
Open-source software for Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
"This page contains links to some of the most useful free software and open-source software for operations research and industrial engineering."
operations-research  open-source  software  libraries  engineering  optimization  tools 
november 2009 by Vaguery
Jamboree Results for iGEM 2009 - ung.igem.org
"This page reports the result of the iGEM competition for 2009. You can visit the team's wiki by clicking on the team's name. You can see what medal the team won and view the slides from their presentation, a video of their presentation, and their poster using the other icons."
biological-engineering  iGEM  competition  design  engineering  engineering-design 
november 2009 by Vaguery
Philosophy, Engineering & Technology » Philosophy & engineering forum issues 2nd call for papers
"The 2010 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering & Technology (fPET-2010) has issued its second call for papers (pdf here). fPET-2010 will be held 9-10 May 2010 (Sunday evening – Monday) at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Co. Organized by the Committee on Philosophy, Engineering & Technology, the event is held in cooperation with a number of organizations:..."
engineering  engineering-philosophy  conferences  CFP  2010 
october 2009 by Vaguery
http://philengtech.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/wpe2007abstracts.pdf
Abstracts of the Workshop Philosophy & Engineering (2007)
engineering  engineering-philosophy  philosophy  conferences  abstract  to-read 
october 2009 by Vaguery
http://philengtech.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/wpe-2008-abstract-papers.pdf
Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering, 2008
engineering  engineering-philosophy  philosophy  workshop  conference  abstract 
october 2009 by Vaguery
iFoundry
"Today’s class in ENG 198, Introduction to the Missing Basics of Engineering (syllabus here), is covering engineering modeling in the lecture Engineering and Models: Hint – Real Engineers Use More than Just Equations."
engineering  engineering-philosophy  values  explanation  lecture  modeling  pedagogy 
october 2009 by Vaguery
Funktionide Part I on Vimeo
"One day the technology of electroactive polymers will drastically change the way we percieve products. Products will gain new dimensions ranging from changing tactile surfaces over active membranes to morphing shapes. Products of the future will be "alive". " via Bill Merrill
engineering  active-design  artificial-life  engineering-design  makers  making  want  want-to-craft-its-soul 
october 2009 by Vaguery
IMT - Applied Optics - KOJAC
KOJAC is a set of Java classes implementing optical elements and optics laws in order to build and simulate optical systems. KOJAC is also aimed at being a demonstrator of optics for educational purposes. It has been developed at the IMT by Olivier Scherler during a training period.
optics  simulation  engineering  design-automation  GP  Koza  Nudge 
september 2009 by Vaguery
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog
"Finally, we thank the thousands of engineers who slaved away for millions of hours to bring us the pod components that are either inexpensive or totally free, such as the Intel Processor, Gigabit Ethernet, ridiculously dense hard drives, Linux, Tomcat, JFS, etc. We realize we’re standing on the shoulders of giants."
design  engineering  cloud-computing  DIY  open-source  open-hardware  data 
september 2009 by Vaguery
Where Real Innovation Happens - Forbes.com
"It turns out that many of the great waves of creative destruction that have reinvented Silicon Valley didn't start there. More important, they didn't even start with the profit motive.

Rather, they started with interesting problems and people who wanted to solve them, exercising technology to its fullest because exploring new ideas was fun."
innovation  economics  economic-development  engineering  future  investment 
july 2009 by Vaguery
citizen engineer - HD video, comic book/zine & kit
makers  hacking  telephony  engineering  video  education  tutorial  hardware  hack  security  electronics 
july 2009 by Vaguery
American Science & Surplus : Jarvis likes - Jarvis Says You Need...
surplus  makers  supplies  hobbies  engineering  magnets  throwies  science  amateurism 
june 2009 by Vaguery
Fast, Effective Genetic Algorithms for Large, Hard Problems
Me: "Solving interesting problems" well involves a frequent iterative dialog between the techniques, intermediate results, and the practitioner. Agility, in other words.
evolutionary-algorithms  design-automation  GAs  metaheuristics  presentation  engineering  engineering-design 
june 2009 by Vaguery
Symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education
'"What is it that identifies humans? The use of tools. For that reason, perhaps engineering is the most human of studies. ... Maybe we should teach engineering as a liberal art, and maybe a piece of every literate person's experience should be to create a useful artifact that improves life, including something as important as communication."'
engineering  conference  education  pedagogy  academia  generalism  worklife  engineering-philosophy  pragmatism 
june 2009 by Vaguery
PhilSci Archive - The importance of pairwork in educational and interdisciplinary initiatives
"An early and prominent employee of Google, Georges Harik, recently made the assertion that pairs working together in startups are 20 times more productive than individuals working alone. The author has also personally experienced the boost of what is here termed pairwork in a university setting during the startup phase of several educational and interdisciplinary initiatives. The paper briefly explores pairwork in the history of technology and constructs both qualitative and little quantitative models of pairwork. The quantitative model under reasonable assumptions easily recovers Harik’s 20x boost. The paper also briefly examines the author’s recent experiences with pairwork in four interdisciplinary and educational initiatives."
pair-programming  teams  collaboration  productivity  worklife  getting-things-done  focus  social-dynamics  engineering 
may 2009 by Vaguery
The Art of Community | O'Reilly Media
"Building communities is vital today, whether it's to build a reliable support network, serve as a valuable source of new ideas, or provide a powerful marketing tool. In The Art of Community, you'll learn about the broad range of talents required to recruit, motivate, and manage community members. The book takes you through the stages of community, and covers topics ranging from software tools to conflict resolution skills. "
community  engineering  social-engineering  social-dynamics  business-model  cultural-norms  cultural-engineering  book  want 
may 2009 by Vaguery
The X10 Book, first edition [LED display in spine of book] | RazorNylon
I find myself wondering when I can have a sheet of Arduino-complexity rice-grain-sized chips fabricated. On demand.
books  hacks  maker  altered-books  Arduino  engineering 
may 2009 by Vaguery
Master Craftsman Teams.
"Why should a young aspiring software professional spend four years and $200K+ to attend an institution that will teach them less about their chosen profession than 3 months of working on a real project with talented mentors? Indeed, why should employers pay $50K for undertrained programmers who are sure to make horrific messes for the next three years of their career?

Consider instead a team of craftspeople. At the center of this team is a master programmer. This is someone who has been programming for two decades or more. This person understand systems at a gut level, and can quickly make technical judgements without agonizing over them. Such a person can direct a team with the kind of calm confidence that only comes with years of experience and seasoning."
academia  training  pedagogy  guild  computer-science-is-not-software-development  programming  development  engineering  learning  craftsmanship 
april 2009 by Vaguery
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven: Simon Stevin Series
A number of very nice theses and whitepapers.
philosophy-of-science  philosophy  philosophy-of-engineering  artifacts  making  engineering  engineering-design  ethics  design  academia 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Rands In Repose: The Makers of Things
"We are defined by what we build. It’s not just the engineering ambition that designed these structures, nor the 20 people who died building the Brooklyn Bridge. It’s that we believe we can and decide to act. I’m happy to report our new President agrees when he says,

“In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted — for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things — some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.”"
via:deusx  engineering  engineering-design  project-management  planning  futurism  aspiration  inspiration  history  innovation  management  optimism 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Open Source Hardware Hackers Start P2P Bank | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
"Lenders are offered returns based on a rolling six-month average so dud projects will be offset by sales of profitable ones. It takes just a few deals to strike it big, Huynh and Stack say, and because it is a community that is not just passionate but also knowledgeable, better projects are likely to get funded.

The promise of returns is enough to get former investment banker Andrew de Montille excited.

"I put money in the bank not because I consider it as a charitable investment," says de Montille. "Rather, I am very confident that some of the projects will do well enough to be profitable to the investors.""
via:srose  collaboration  open-source  hardware  engineering  engineering-design  openness  intellectual-property  business-model  investment  innovation 
march 2009 by Vaguery
http://bacon.umcs.lublin.pl/~ktalmont/pdf/Red reason.pdf
"1) Rational solutions need not be universal, instead they will be only effective in appropriate contexts.

2) Rationally acceptable conclusions do not have to follow necessarily from the information given, as acceptance is not to be understood in terms of a formal relationship between propositions but in terms of a practical commitment.

3) The rationality of the conclusions is not necessarily determined by whether they conform to the appropriate rules, indeed the primary focus is removed from conclusions and placed upon actions that are taken on the basis of beliefs and methods that are all subject to further criticism and development. "
rationality  naturalism  pragmatism  modeling  planning  engineering  heuristics  philosophy-of-science  philosophy-of-engineering 
march 2009 by Vaguery
pyamg - Google Code
"AMG is a multilevel technique for solving large-scale linear systems with optimal or near-optimal efficiency. Unlike geometric multigrid, AMG requires little or no geometric information about the underlying problem and develops a sequence of coarser grids directly from the input matrix. This feature is especially important for problems discretized on unstructured meshes and irregular grids."
finite-elements  engineering  simulation  solver  research  Python 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti is on the move in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104: Buckminster Fuller on making money vs. making sense
"Very frequently I hear or read of my artifacts adjudged by critics as being "failures," because I did not get them into mass-production and "make money with them." Such money-making-as-criteria-of-success critics do not realize that money-making was never my goal. I learned very early and painfully that you have to decide at the outset whether you are trying to make money or to make sense, as they are mutually exclusive."
r.-buckminster-fuller  quote  design  engineering  money  business-opportunity  planning  objectives 
february 2009 by Vaguery
Mogadonia
robots  futurism  engineering  pulp 
january 2009 by Vaguery
http://www.dicklyon.com/phototech/PhotoTech_11_DocImage_Slides.pdf
Starting at "Page Segmentation(1)" in particular...
Leptonica  image-analysis  image-processing  OCR  digitization  library  engineering  Nudge 
january 2009 by Vaguery
International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
"The Twenty-First International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'09) will be held at the Hyatt Harborside at Boston's Logan Int'l Airport, Boston, USA, July 1-3, 2009.

The conference aims at bringing together experts in software engineering and knowledge engineering to discuss on relevant results in either software engineering or knowledge engineering or both. Special emphasis will be put on the transference of methods between both domains."
Nudge  agent-based  engineering  engineering-design  software  complexology  evolutionary-algorithms 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Societal engineering knowledge database - Biohack
via:srose  collaboration  knowledge  engineering  models 
december 2008 by Vaguery
The Sharp Edge of Solar: Are Solar Stocks Cheap? - Seeking Alpha
"Before you buy any solar energy stock or fund, read this article carefully, thoughtfully, and also do a great deal of "due diligence" to try to determine the risk-versus-the-reward of it all."
investing  solar  ETFs  stocks  engineering  companies 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Solar Red hopes to put solar installation through another transformation » VentureBeat
"Solar Red thinks it can do two things: First, reduce the cost of attaching panels, by integrating the process into the construction of a house, or periodic renovations; and second, push down the learning curve enough that regular roofers and construction workers can put on the panels."
solar  engineering  engineering-design  product-design  installation  home-design  building  sprawlette  owner-builder 
december 2008 by Vaguery
GECCO - 2009 Competitions and Awards
Humies  competition  evolutionary-algorithms  design-automation  computer-science  engineering-design  engineering  GECCO 
november 2008 by Vaguery
Google Research Publication: BigTable
via:vielmetti  data  database  dynamics  design  engineering  google  programming  architecture  reference  papers  storage  scalability 
november 2008 by Vaguery
Paul Kedrosky: Engineers: Financial vs Real
Predator-Prey dynamics, anybody?
financial-engineering  engineering  academia  pedagogy  fashion  cultural-norms 
november 2008 by Vaguery
Annuals converted into perennials
"VIB researchers, such as Siegbert Melzer in Tom Beeckman's group, have studied two such flower-inducing genes. They have deactivated them in thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), a typical annual. The VIB researchers found that mutant plants can no longer induce flowering, but they can continue to grow vegetatively or come into flower much later. Melzer had found that modified crops did not use up their store of non-specialised cells, enabling perennial growth. They can therefore continue to grow for a very long time.

As with real perennials these plants show secondary growth with wood formation creating shrub-like Arabidopsis plants."
botany  molecular  biology  engineering  biological-engineering  horticulture 
november 2008 by Vaguery
Patent Law Blog (Patently-O): Co-Inventors Contribution Must Be “More Than The Exercise of Ordinary Skill”
"Correcting Inventorship: An issued patent is presumed to name the correct inventors. Thus, an inventorship challenge must bring "clear and convincing evidence" that the newly surfaced inventor "contributed to the conception of the claimed invention." "Simply reducing to practice that which has been conceived by others is insufficient for co-inventorship." Under the clear and convincing standard, the inventorship challenge "must be corroborated by independent evidence.""
intellectual-property  patents  engineering  collaboration  law  contracts  CoScience  rights 
october 2008 by Vaguery
RFID peripherals · Touch
RFID  makers  kits  engineering  DIY 
october 2008 by Vaguery
Muck and Mystery: Wrong Ethic
"There are some efforts in progress to develop perennial grain producing grasses to overcome one of the costly and destructive characteristics of food plants: cultivation. The yearly need to break the soil to plant a crop is an expensive labor and material consuming activity, and it degrades soil. It's a non-trivial objective. A cross of some sort that produced perennial C4 grain producing grasses that are able to produce in a wider range of temperatures would be as revolutionary as earlier efforts that produced shorter grain plants that put more of their energy into seed than stalk."
sustainability  energy  crops  soil  engineering  objectives  cellulosic-ethanol  breeding 
august 2008 by Vaguery
Engineers create bone that blends into tendons
"They created the tissue by coating a three-dimensional polymer scaffold with a gene delivery vehicle that encodes a transcription factor known as Runx2. They generated a high concentration of Runx2 at one end of the scaffold and decreased that amount until they ended up with no transcription factor on the other end, resulting in a precisely controlled spatial gradient of Runx2. After that, they seeded skin fibroblasts uniformly onto the scaffold. The skin cells on the parts of the scaffold containing a high concentration of Runx2 turned into bone, while the skin cells on the scaffold end with no Runx2 turned into soft tissue. The result is an artificial bone that gradually turns into soft tissue, such as tendons or ligaments."
bioengineering  regenerative-medicine  bone  engineering  design  medicine  tissue-engineering 
august 2008 by Vaguery
Programmable Logic Controller (PLCS) - Servo Control - Motor Controller - Pumping iron
Festo  actuators  design  engineering  robotics  Moorglade  Nudge 
august 2008 by Vaguery
Festo’s Airic’s_arm robot foreshadows the industry’s mechatronic future
Festo  robotics  actuators  design  engineering  Moorglade 
august 2008 by Vaguery
How it works [Greenbird]
Greenbird  wind-power  transportation  car  experiment  engineering  sustainability 
august 2008 by Vaguery
girtonlabs - SenseSurface - Girton Labs Cambridge
interface  engineering  design  engineering-design  user-experience  controller 
august 2008 by Vaguery
Applications | Whalepower
nudge  wind-power  turbines  aeronautics  design  engineering  biologically-inspired 
august 2008 by Vaguery
Conceptual Trends and Current Topics
Graham describes his strategy precisely: "Find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly." That seems simple, but it is not. He elaborates:

When I first laid out these principles explicitly, I noticed something striking: this is practically a recipe for generating a contemptuous initial reaction. Though simple solutions are better, they don't seem as impressive as complex ones.
simplicity  design  engineering  problem-solving  communication  bias  planning  getting-things-done  buy-in 
august 2008 by Vaguery
RepRap: Blog: TSA Really Wreck The RepRap Child
sad  TSA  Bushism  air-travel  horror  RepRap  engineering  ruined 
july 2008 by Vaguery
LightPipes
simulation  engineering  software  commercial  design  optics  interferometry  nudge 
july 2008 by Vaguery
MrFit is out
simulation  engineering  design  optics  optimization  nudge 
july 2008 by Vaguery
ELMER Finite Elements simulator
open-source  engineering  software  simulation  models  physics  design  computing  nudge 
july 2008 by Vaguery
Science of Collective Intelligence
emergence  crowdsourcing  collective-intelligence  simulation  engineering  design  organization  swarm 
july 2008 by Vaguery
CYCLONE Gas Fireplace from Heat & Glo
unattainable, but frackin' cool
fireplace  decor  engineering  sprawlette  design  industrial-design  science! 
july 2008 by Vaguery
Print mag cover design sculpture: Side view on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
fabrication  typography  sculpture  engineering  generative-art  via:boingboing 
july 2008 by Vaguery
Spore Daily » Spore Daily #16: Zzzig Zzzag
algorithms  generative-art  mechanism  design  engineering  amazing  Spore  gait 
july 2008 by Vaguery
AfriGadget » Blog Archive » Re-use in the (unofficial) Kenyan Ironworks Industry
via:boingboing  exploded-view  openness  reuse  ingenuity  innovation  engineering 
july 2008 by Vaguery
One-of-a-kind green fabricators by industrial design students | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
fabrication  DIY  openness  engineering  challenge  technology 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Coding Horror: The Ultimate Code Kata
advice  blogging  career  worklife  development  education  engineering  focus  learning  philosophy  practice  productivity  training  kata 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Labyrinth Books
via:cshalizi  book  philosophy  gadgets  sociology  engineering  cyborgs 
june 2008 by Vaguery
YouTube - Spider Car
via:warrenellis  robotics  DIY  innovation  fab  engineering  design 
june 2008 by Vaguery
YouTube - Yellow Drum Machine - The original main film -
robotics  video  autonomous  music  drumming  engineering  creativity 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Target support for young scientists, says panel/Mote
"If America is to maintain its scientific and technological edge, it needs to inspire and support its most talented scientists and engineers through the early stages of their careers..."
science  pedagogy  public-policy  funding  academia  innovation  economics  engineering  philanthropy 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Hagley Museum Machinery - a set on Flickr
via:boingboing  art  photography  engineering  machinery  museology 
june 2008 by Vaguery
NASA - Phoenix Mission to Mars
mars  NASA  Phoenix  areology  engineering  expedition 
may 2008 by Vaguery
Paul W.K. Rothemund - Home Page
Nanotechnology  DNA  design  templates  algorithms  applied-mathematics  engineering 
april 2008 by Vaguery
Nanorex, Inc. - Home
local  Michigan  nanotech  DNA  engineering  molecular  design  nanotechnology  manufacturing  synthesis 
april 2008 by Vaguery
The 24 Hours of LeMons
race  racing  cheap  engineering 
april 2008 by Vaguery
Hod Lipson
We were talking about the Uncanny Valley a few days ago, and I was reminded of Hod's dreaming spider robots, twitching in their sleep.
robotics  genetic-programming  evolutionary-algorithms  machine-learning  biology  biologically-inspired  engineering  design  autonomous 
march 2008 by Vaguery
uncanny mule
The world wants to be uncanny and disturbing. I want it to be, and being of the world... I get to say. More of these. Now! With seven legs! And undulating cilia! But it needs more eyes.
robotics  evolutionary-algorithms  design  engineering  emergence  control 
march 2008 by Vaguery
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