The Official Cool Stuff Thread
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@Zecc I guess the rotary phone hosting the website ran out of juice
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@hungrier said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
I guess the rotary phone hosting the website ran out of juice
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Gymnastics obstacle course:
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@JBert
I prefer Macaskill's workout video
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@JBert said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Gymnastics obstacle course:
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@Luhmann said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@JBert
I prefer Macaskill's workout videoThat's not gymnastics.
It is all kinds of harder to do though...
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Is this satisfying?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/mechanical_gifs/comments/etqe5b/glass_bottle_mass_production_pew_pew_pew/
Molten glass.
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You've probably seen computers made with dominos, with billiard balls, with water, with basically anything. But how about this... a computer made using your visual cortex.
Harnessing vision for computation
Here's the basic concept:
The "wire" is interpreted as facing one a direction or another depending on the cue at the top. And then you build from that.Admittedly it doesn't work too well. My brain seems to switch to the "1" regardless of what's on top. But still cool.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Admittedly it doesn't work too well.
If more people were so honest about all the "cool ideas".
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Admittedly it doesn't work too well. My brain seems to switch to the "1" regardless of what's on top. But still cool.
Same. I only get an effect right at the juncture point with the top block, otherwise I get "1" everywhere. But I'm not very visually-oriented (being more word-oriented).
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Admittedly it doesn't work too well.
Admittedly I don't get it. 👐
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Then again, the signal may leave from the bottom of the square and not the right face.
But it's the same principle.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
You've probably seen computers made with dominos, with billiard balls, with water, with basically anything.
NodeBB, why are you removing the link around "basically anything", which was the main thing I wanted to refer to?
Anyway, TIL about Rule 110. No relation to rule 34.
Though I suspect there are enough crazy people out there that someone will go ahead and apply either one to the other.
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@Tsaukpaetra I see how it is supposed to work (if at the bottom the left side of the tape is visible it's a 1, otherwise a 0) but while their not gates work for me the and/or gates do not, and the xor gate is too large.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Yeah.... Still nothing.
I went back and read the paper and... I almost see it, but it's hard.
Specially the XOR and AND gates.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
how it is supposed to work
I think i understand what is intending to be displayed, but I can't resolve it in the way described.
Probably like those spinning illusions where the "dancer" is going two directions depending on where you want it to go...
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@Zecc said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
I'm with the other folks... for me, the "0" just creates an impossible illustration illusion where the track magically flips around between the top and the "notch."
I know how it's supposed to work, but my brain just doesn't want to cooperate.
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@brie I find that this still works because it's not filled in. The "NOT" gate on the other hand is terrible because there you got some angled bit, infill, a cone plus those "impossible" lines.
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@boomzilla Ok, fine, but how will you ever get kids to stop playing with their food?
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@JBert said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
but how will you ever get kids to stop playing with their food?
simple: just eat that tower
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Kickstarted page says:
The Building Brick Waffler is equipped with the Type A electrical plug (the skinny, two-pronged kind used primarily in North America) and is optimized for standard USA/Canada current (125 volts). Because of that, we can only ship to countries that support that plug type and voltage. Thank you for your understanding!
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@boomzilla Kind of like Lego candies, I think teaching kids to put stuff that looks like legos in their mouth is a bad idea
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@hungrier said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@boomzilla Kind of like Lego candies, I think teaching kids to put stuff that looks like legos in their mouth is a bad idea
Depends if you like your kids.
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@boomzilla That's pretty cool.
https://youtu.be/76amOgNzdDQ?t=127
The guy's got a Vandelay Industries t-shirt.
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https://imgur.com/a/NSnfN0t
< https://imgur.com/a/NSnfN0tEdit: Booo, no embed!
It's a selection of kites.
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@Zecc said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@boomzilla That's pretty cool.
The guy's got a Vandelay Industries t-shirt.
"The original tensegrity structure is your body."
I hadn't known that Carlos Castaneda didn't invent the term "tensegrity".
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@jinpa said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@boomzilla That's pretty cool.
The guy's got a Vandelay Industries t-shirt.
"The original tensegrity structure is your body."
I hadn't known that Carlos Castaneda didn't invent the term "tensegrity".
See Also:
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975) in collaboration with E.J. Applewhite with a preface and contribution by Arthur L. Loeb, ISBN 0-02-541870-XBut it’s a hard slog to read.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Obviously fake. I have met enough cats in my lifetime to know that the first thing a cat will do when confronted with such a situation is push all of those over on purpose.
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@brie said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Obviously fake. I have met enough cats in my lifetime to know that the first thing a cat will do when confronted with such a situation is push all of those over on purpose.
Apart from the behavioral discrepancies, they are very convincing cat robots, though. So I guess it does qualify for this thread.
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Strategy
The way I was able to successfully complete the docking procedure was to correct the roll, then Z, Y, pitch, and yaw, in that order. Then I flew it in nice and slowly, adjusting the Y/Z using the position controls.
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Once you get the hang of the controls and strategy, see if you can successfully dock in under 3 minutes.
edit: I feel like <2 minutes might be possible...
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I want one!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
https://imgur.com/a/NSnfN0t
< https://imgur.com/a/NSnfN0tEdit: Booo, no embed!
It's a selection of kites.In Swedish kites are called dragons.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
The first time I saw this my reaction was "what is the hard to understand part, what am I missing?"
It's entirely intuitive how it works for me, so much so that it took me a fair while to understand what looks strange to others.
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@Carnage said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
In Swedish kites are called dragons.
Oh, oh, let's go fly a dragon!
Up to the highest... umm...?
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The tractors and industrial engines near the end are pretty neat.