Can an Award-Winning MIT Toroidal Drone Propeller Make a Better PC Fan?

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James of the YouTube channel Major Hardware was fascinated by the design of an award-winning MIT toroidal drone propeller. Since the main improved characteristic of the design was noise reduction, he was curious to know if it could be applied to PC fans, too.For this first round, his conclusion is...

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Rose B. Simpson’s Road Less Traveled

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Rose B. Simpson is an enrolled member and resident of Khaʼpʼoe Ówîngeh (Santa Clara Pueblo). Simpson addresses history, culture, and the future in her artwork. Hyperallergic shares:When I first saw reproductions of Rose B. Simpson’s mysterious ceramic guardians, I immediately...

DreamWorks’ Open Source MoonRay Renderer Is Finally Available To Filmmakers #ArtTuesday #OpenSource

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Great news for indy film makers. MoonRay has released its code free to use as open-source! You’ll need to do some work and have some know how to use it but it is a great step.Via No Film School:Whether you’re...

JP’s Product Pick of the Week — 4pm Eastern TODAY! 3/21/23 @adafruit #adafruit #newproductpick

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Come on by for JP’s Product Pick of The Week! A new product pick will be revealed. The show airs at 4pm ET / 1pm PT, TODAY!Check out the livestream right here inside this product page — you won’t want...

The Art of Paper and Paper as Art #ArtTuesday

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A Kleenex box is made of paper, and on that paper is a pattern. That pattern was made by a person, as was the paper, and it turns out that the paper and the pattern are inseparable, since the creation...

Autonomous Self-Burying Seed Carriers for Aerial Seeding #Biomimicry

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Researchers have developed a robot that buries itself in soil when exposed to water. Here’s more from Nature:Aerial seeding can quickly cover large and physically inaccessible areas1 to improve soil quality and scavenge residual nitrogen in agriculture2, and for postfire...

Anne Barela on Hackster Café today at 1 PM US Eastern #Makers @hacksterio @Anne_Engineer

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Alex from Hackster.io invited me to join her on Hackster Cafe today! We’re planning a wide ranging conversation about my floppy display project, Adafruit, my making and perhaps see a few old IBM computers.It starts live at 1 pm US...

World Puppetry Day 2023 #WorldPuppetryDay

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(image via Unima)Happy World Puppetry Day!Here at Adafruit we love puppets.We are puppets: Cappy, Hans and Connie, Minerva, and obviously the one and only AdaBot, to name a few.We make puppets! MP3 Playback in CircuitPython with Lars the Sloth Puppet By John Park...

Celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth with the Smithsonian #WHM23 #WomenInSTEM

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The Smithsonian is celebrating women who tell our stories this year through events, podcasts and exhibitions. Don’t miss the Smithsonian Folkways playlist which includes songs, poems and speeches. Check out what the Smithsonian has to offer!

How Singapore Airlines Makes 50,000 In-Flight Meals A Day

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Insider Business visits Singapore Airlines’ catering center at Changi Airport.It’s overall quite an impressive operation! And it definitely makes me feel like a wimp for complaining about packing lunch for my two kids…With a whopping $500 million food budget, catering...

NYC Parks Tree Map

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One of the best parts of living in the city, particularly around this time of year when spring is slowly waking up, is walking around outside and keeping your eyes on what the plants are doing. Depending on where you...