Random Awesome Things

New battery technology: (announcement from the company soon)
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/14/hybrid-batteries-tease-big-energy-capacity-while-charging-in-sec/

Jeff L wrote:

New battery technology: (announcement from the company soon)
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/14/hybrid-batteries-tease-big-energy-capacity-while-charging-in-sec/

That's pretty cool.

[Real!] 3D Images/Holograms made with hacked Kinect cameras:




Unfortunately, there's still no good way to project an image in three dimensions.

That is so effin' cool.

Look, I don't want to be a prude here, and I'll occasionally slip myself, but I DO use this site as a resource for my team at school, so please no more 'F-bombs' It's the sort of thing that can get me into real trouble.

And yes, I agree, it was very cool.

woah it slipped past the filter! lol i guess cause theres no g

rdubard wrote:

Look, I don't want to be a prude here, and I'll occasionally slip myself, but I DO use this site as a resource for my team at school, so please no more 'F-bombs' It's the sort of thing that can get me into real trouble.

And yes, I agree, it was very cool.

My mistake. I could not think of any other way to describe my enthusiasm. It has been corrected.

Yeh. for some reason (and it's fine with me), 'effin' is not a problem.

Be jealous, be very jealous.

130" BIG screen. And what better use than SolidWorks on something that awesome.

ahaha thats awesome ^^

I think i see a shell on the table, I wonder what your up too
I can almost read what song you were listening to too haha

What's even cooler is my friend build this projector from scratch using an LCD screen from a monitor and a gigantic halogen(i think) bulb. That thing is badass. So now when it's late at night and i have a craving for cading something, i can come here and indulge myself.

And lately i've been addicted to Savior by Rise against. -good shop music

whats going to be my brothers christmas present. homemade presents are the worst.

And because picture frames are boring....



I got a set of cold cathode lights for a computer case, cut off the molex plug and pci plate slider switch and connected a rocker switch and 9v battery snap. I hacked a part a 12v AC/DC wall adapter and put another 9v battery snap on it so this can use a 9v battery (which is dim) or be plugged into the wall. We'll see how it turns out.

Hopefully have time to finish it up this week

Someone on the internets decided that NASA has a horrible PR department. So, he made them an unofficial commercial:

All Hail the Overlord!

Further Details:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/13/ibms-watson-supercomputer-destroys-all-humans-in-jeopardy-pract/

WOW! I want a Watson. I like the explanation of how it works too:

This is more random than it is awesome buuuut this is my fb status:

so you know how whenever your CADing, you rotate the part in 3D to get a another view. well i'm so tired and have been CADing for so long, that i tried to rotate a page in firefox. "DAMMIT! WHY WON'T YOU ROTATE! ...oh'

...well back to the mill. HAHAHAHA this is going to end badly."

BuuUUuut, after many hours of set up, I finally finished this:



WILL'S NOT THE ONLY ONE WITH A CNC!!!

But my cnc, we call her "The Womb" cause that's where parts are born, she did this to me:



The scary thing is, I saw white underneath my skin.
:O WHAT! I thought I was black to the bone!

thats alot of milling!, looks like you used a pretty small bit?

crowconor wrote:

thats alot of milling!, looks like you used a pretty small bit?

No I took small passes with a 3/4" and used a 1/4" for some profiling. But now I can borrow my friends 5" insert endmill for some big time milling. Good thing too cause I have some huge parts to make.

No one liked the "Womb" comment? I thought it was kinda cleaver.

5in wow thats a big bit

is that a full body spinner, where the whole inside ring is magnets for spinning?

first time ive ever seen the inside of the shell

What weight class?