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SpaceX attempt to land a reusable rocket #2
I saw this morning on Business Insider that SpaceX is going to try again to land their reusable rocket on a drone barge. This is how close they got last time.
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Decoding Morse Code
Morse code is an ancient tongue spoken by the hooded figures who worship a terrifying obsidian pillar in the sunken city of – oh, wait. Sorry! Wrong blog.
We’ve briefly looked over producing Morse code and making music. What if we’re receiving Morse code now? Today, we’ll be teaching the Arduino to translate Morse code back into English and use a microphone at the same time.
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GCodeDemoCNC Plasma Cutter prototype
Andy Lynch wrote in to tell us of his experimental plasma cutter CNC machine. GcodeCNCDemoV2 was used in the brain of a portable CNC Plasma cutter prototype. (more…)
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HOG drive as RC Kite vector thrust gimbal
Thingiverse user Rasterize wrote in to point out that the Hemispherical Omnidirectional Gimballed drive I designed some time ago has a second life as a vector thrust gimbal for kites.
Why would you put vector thrust on a kite? How about because it’s beautiful.
Ideas like this crack my brain open like a raw egg. I never would have considered it!
…Can you make a dozen of them flocking together?
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Makelangelo with a Raspberry Pi
The Makelangelo on Github has just received (and accepted) it’s first pull request to add Raspberry Pi support to the Makelangelo. Everybody please give Chris Mills some love in the forums.
For now it’s developers-only, so if you want in on the action you’ll have to start coding.
