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Things 114: Kern Test, Robot Bird, Social Graph, Too Soon To Say
Puzzle
This week, try testing your ability to kern.
If you liked that, try the splines.
Video
It’s easy to get overexcited about human progress, when in the grand scheme of things we’re still pretty small fry. I would periodically remind myself of this by considering that for all our ingenuity, we still couldn’t make a robot the size [...]
Things 56: Robot Hand, Earth and Moon, Magical Ground Squirrel Puzzle
(Originally sent August 2009)
Quote
“Most problems are side effects of solutions to other problems.” – Eskil Steenberg
Video
Once you have built a machine or robot that can do something, the really cool part is you can then see how fast it can do that thing. In the case of this astoundingly dextrous robot hand, the answer is: [...]
Things 47: Flying Robot Penguins, Hamster Wheel Projection, Space Stick
(Originally sent May 2009)
Film
I saw Wolverine. I found it to be acceptable. I was particularly impressed that they held almost all shots of the enjoyably over-the-top climactic battle back from the trailer.
Video
In this video there are giant flying robot penguins, after the small swimming robot penguins, after the pre-roll ad, after the video loads. But [...]
Things 40: Big Dog Robot, Movie Marketing, Facebook Principles
(Originally sent February 2009)
For those that are new or may have forgotten, ‘Things’ is intended to be weekly, I’ve just been abnormally busy recently. I’m getting this one done by adding bits in stages throughout the week, but since it has somehow become much longer than usual it has actually taken more than a week [...]