Tochi Onyebuchi – “Riot Baby” and Using Sci-Fi to Dive Into Real-Life Issues | #SciFiSunday

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Great interview with author Tochi Onyebuchi from The Daily Show on YouTube, via Tor.com.Author Tochi Onyebuchi details how his book “Riot Baby” blends science fiction and historical fiction in the time of the Rodney King riots.Read more.

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Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: National Week of Making, Laser Gloves, Wireless LED Maracas, & more!

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ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UPWe’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to, ranging...

Using A 3D Printer To Make A Sandwich

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Y K shared on YouTube:Make sandwiches with a 3D printerThis video shows one of the prototype applications of our research called Functgraph. Functgraph is a 3D printer that can physically assist the user by assembling the 3D printer’s objects without...

The World’s Largest Bee

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via Atlas ObscuraWhile working as a curatorial assistant at the American Museum of Natural History, Eli Wyman learned about a very unusual bee that was presumed to be extinct. The bee, Megachile pluto, also known as Wallace’s giant bee, is...

Jewel Meets Star Trek

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Nice Enterprise build coming along from CPTNDNSL on YouTube. Thanks so much to Darrell for sharing!Brief vid showing the use of an Adafruit JEWEL, an Adafruit Audio FX Sound Board and Arduino Mega to light up a TOS Enterprise nacelle...

Mel’s Loop – A Comprenesive Companion to the Story of Mel

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Many years ago (not 39 years ago, though possibly 19) I remember reading The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer. Already, a lot had to be explained to a programmer of the day. But now there’s Mel’s Loop, an annotated...

Holographic Glasses for Virtual Reality

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The future is here. Jonghyun Kim shared this project on Youtube! SIGGRAPH 2022 paper Holographic Glasses for Virtual Reality Project page: https://research.nvidia.com/publicati…

The Science of Regeneration in Doctor Who #SciFiSaturday

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Someone who is not British once said that the most interesting thing about James Bond is the way the changes in the spy’s character reflect the way Britain sees itself during any given decade. It may be true for the...

The Surprising Afterlife of Used Hotel Soap

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Is it just me or do y’all also feel weird about opening a new tiny bar of soap while you’re away? I know folks who always bring their own soap and won’t touch hotel soap, folks who stock their travel...

Five Dark (But Not Hopeless) SF Movies

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The “Mother of Yoda” breaks silence on Baby Yoda and more #SciFiSunday

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