Ancient Roman multitool as a modern replica

*I was pretty sure that someone must have re-built this millennia-old tool-set, but I still wonder if they’re commercially available anywhere. I would quite like to own one. *You’ll notice that this device lacks a bottle-opener and a can opener, because the Roman Empire had no bottle-caps or sealed metal cans.

Jimmy DiResta coffee hack

*Famous pro Maker Jimmy DiResta is not a great artisan, he just never gets tired.

Carpentry Compiler

“After the revolution, things will be different. Not better, just different.”

A Jacquard Loom simulator

*It’s simulated with a Raspberry Pi. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/jacquard-loom-simulator/

A venture capitalist pondering metaverses

*Rather a lot going on here. https://www.matthewball.vc/the-metaverse-primer (…) Personally, I’m tracking the emergence of the Metaverse around eight core categories, which can be thought of as a stack (click each header for a dedicated essay). (((That’s a lot of dedicated essays.))) Hardware: The sale and support of physical technologies and devices used to access, interact […]

Adam Savage pondering electronics and costumes

*He has the occasional fit of art theory or design theory, but Adam Savage generally cuts to the chase from the point of view of the maker at the workbench. *You can be very up to speed with the likes of Arduino and Raspberry Pi and still benefit from this.

Linux after thirty years

https://ubuntu.com/blog/happy-birthday-30-years-of-linux

An excerpt from the latest issue of “Leonardo”

https://direct.mit.edu/leon/article/54/4/402/97295/Crypto-Art-A-Decentralized-View Abstract Crypto art is limited-edition digital art, cryptographically registered with a token on a blockchain. Tokens represent a transparent, auditable origin and provenance for a piece of digital art. Blockchain technology allows tokens to be held and securely traded without the involvement of third parties. Crypto art draws its origins from conceptual art—sharing the […]

Meanwhile, at Feral File

*This interesting development would presumably leave me owning some Ethereum product for the first time ever. https://feralfile.com Hi BruceS, Please join us this Thursday at 18:00 PDT (UTC-8) on our Discord voice channel for a discussion around Feral File’s draft Ethereum smart contracts. Here are the key points: Each exhibition will have its own unique […]

Karel Capek’s Robots are 100 years old

Capek’s play “RUR, Rossum’s Universal Robots,” first premiered in January 1921. *From the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, a re-creation of 2016: