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Re:Burning Man Death Rates – A Short Lesson in Statistics on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:17PM (#49916519)
The Ladder to nowhere from 2002 is a good one. https://www.reddit.com/r/BurningMan/comments/te179d/the_ladd...
Re:Logo Programming Language on Friday September 11, 2026 @11:44AM (#49660359)
It's turtles all the way down
Re:The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @11:28AM (#48109758)
Dalibor Farny is a great example of bringing nixie tubes back into existence purely by determination and deep research. https://www.daliborfarny.com
Re:Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality on Sunday February 15, 2026 @08:28PM (#47029804)
This reminds me of an old Wired interview with Danny Hillis when he developed a system called Babble that used unintelligible vocal bits as background sound to help concentration, too bad it never really went anywhere. https://www.wired.com/2005/06/applied-minds-think-remarkably...
Polychromatic acousto-optic modulation hasn't been used in laser shows for quite some time since RGB diode based laser systems came about. Granted, nothing beats a mixed gas ion laser and PCAOM for the beautiful colors you can get but these days nobody misses dragging around water hoses and sorting out 60 Amps of three phase power to run those old beasts.
Re:The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks on Saturday March 01, 2025 @04:10PM (#43223707)
This one from 2013 when the Chromebook Pixel was announced was pretty great too. https://tomsepe.com/portfolio/google-pixeltree/
Absolutely check out Refik Anadol, amazing contemporary work.

https://refikanadol.com https://refikanadolstudio.com

However hazardous cargo is not allowed in tunnels so bridges like this one are the only way hazmat can be transported over water crossings.
Re:Thaddeus Cahill's Teleharmonium on Monday January 29, 2024 @02:58PM (#39181614)
And a digital version was made into a Eurorack modular synth module as well. http://www.makenoisemusic.com/modules/telharmonic
Re:Webcams aren't good enough on Sunday June 19, 2022 @09:12PM (#31805186)
Marshall, a company that makes miniature video cameras used in broadcast has a great USB camera that is UVC1.5 compliant, you can change lenses, it's not that big, and has great image quality.

https://marshall-usa.com/cameras/CV503-U3/

Re:A year with the Elgato Stream Deck on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:05AM (#31558134)
There is an amazing alternate control software package for Stream Deck called Companion that allows for control of many AV products and really opens up the possibilities of what can be done with the SD: https://bitfocus.io/companion/