Have you ever wished for a 500 Hz, millimeter-precise linear position sensing system? Well you’re in luck — all you need is some circuit board, a basic microcontroller, and a wee bit of maths!
See the full writeup for all of the mathematical and Rusty details.
Misc. stuff
Hacking the T2S+ Out of Fear: Get Lock-In Thermography for Free
Muro Box is an app/MIDI-controlled music box — if that’s not wholesome enough for you, their homepage has a section shouting out props to their various suppliers (“Our lubricants have very high temperature resistance requirements, so this 28-year old lubricant company helps us develop a unique recipe for Muro Box products to ensure its mechanical parts can endure long-time use.”)
“competitive daydreamers gathered in Tokyo today for the “2024 Space-out Competition” Heart rates were checked and anyone who laughs, talks or dozes off was eliminated during the 90 min competition.”
“Wayfinding is not about drawing signs, but about streamlining the whole scenario of how people find something, and even how they understand what they need to look for. The project included signage, maps, printed instructions, a mobile website, an LED board, and a banner.”
“I will apologize for the gene edited baby experiment, only if their parents have requested it. However, they are happy with the results now.”
State of the Art B-Rep 3D Model Generation using Machine Learning
I got dysentery so you don’t have to. Captivating first-person account of a human challenge trial. “A good standard reference point for “shared, resigned dread” is the 72 or so hours in a clinical trial ward after everyone has ingested shigella bacteria along with maybe-a-treatment.”
You can run Rust as a Jupyter Notebook Kernel
How is this Website so fast!? Turns out the McMaster-Carr website is the G.O.A.T. for its technical implementation in addition to UX. Also: “I worked on http://mcmaster.com for two years and the way it actually happened was that the software side was tyrannically overseen by a print publishing department with insanely strict quality standards”
The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT): Most Ingenious Algorithm Ever? - A derivation of the FFT from the perspective of multiplying polynomials.
Simple Rules for Better Sandwiches | Techniquely with Lan Lam