Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
I happened across this site while looking for info on the TV show UFO, man if you want to see the wholesale coonless that was UFO this is it. Gobs of screen grabs for everything from the Interceptors to SID. It even has photos of people drinking coffee, smoking, and fighting. A little obsessive but for a good cause.
(BTW, the site is in Japanese but you can figure it out.)
Very cool. I’ll have to build a few and have back yard wars with the kids. I say it’s just about perfect entertainment for a family outing. But that’s just me. đŸ™‚
(BTW, this guy has a paper clock that you can build. Keeps time too!)
***UPDATE***
The paper trebuchet link is no more, I can’t find a copy of the plans anywhere of I’d be happy to post a link to them. While I was looking I did find enough cool trbuchet links to make a new post. Take a look at them here.
***YET ANOTHER UPDATE***
The Wayback Machine has the plans:
Build a paper trebuchet
(Lets hear it for Mr. Peabody and his amazing Wayback Machine and Matt C. from the MAKE blog for pointing it out.)
Due to a large number of requests, I have posted the trebuchet PDF files here. If there are any problems about me hosting them here please email me and I’ll remove them. Thanks and enjoy building!
Plans part one
Plans part two
OK, the translation is a bit off… But here you can build a paper display of the Honda Asimo robot. Build it, stick it on your desk at the office and I bet everyone will want to know what it is. (Or just think your weird and keep their distance.)
“TRM press” that delivers twin linking popular information on held event and race. ..cover.. papercraft of ASIMO
Amazing just scratches the surface… Astounding is more like it!
A sculptor named Livio De Marchi has carved an entire house so that it is seems to have been assembled from books — including the furnishings. Carved book roof, walls, tables, chairs, beds and dressers. It’s amazing!
Boing Boing: House carved to appear made of books
Anything is a good excuse for a story about the Z Machine.
Sandia National Labs has accelerated a small plate from zero to 76,000 mph in less than a second.
The speed of the thrust was a new record for Sandia’s Z Machine — sometimes referred to as the fastest gun in the West. Actually the fastest in the world, it is now able to propel small plates at 34 kilometers a second, faster than the 30 km/sec that Earth travels through space in its orbit about the sun, 50 times faster than a rifle bullet, and three times the velocity needed to escape Earth’s gravitational field.
The immediate purpose of these very rapid flights is to help understand the extreme conditions found within the interiors of the giant planets Saturn and Jupiter, hasten the achievement of virtually unlimited energy through peacetime atomic fusion, and provide more information about the condition of the U.S. nuclear stockpile without having to explode a nuclear weapon.
The Z Machine Gun Shoots Faster Than the Earth
