Statistically, more celebrities died in 2016 than would be expected. 2017 is turning out to be a little better, but we did recently lose the great [Bill Paxton]. Game over, man. Game over. A few years ago, [Benheck] built his own pinball machine. It’s Bill Paxton Pinball. A great build, and worth revisiting, just like another viewing of Aliens and Apollo 13.
Some of the most popular 3D-printable objects are [flowalistik]’s low-poly Pokemon series. They’re great models, even though he missed the most obvious Pokemon. Of [flowalistik]’s low-poly Pokemon models, the Bulbasaur is a crowd favorite. Because this model is constructed from flat planes joined at an angle, it’s possible to make a huge low-poly Bulbasaur on a laser cutter or a CNC router. Go home Bulbasaur, you’re drunk. We are eagerly awaiting details on how this grass and poison-type tank was made.
For the last few months, [Matthew Cremona] has been building a huge bandsaw mill in his backyard. It’s built for cutting logs into lumber, and this thing is massive. He’s been posting build log videos for the last few months, but this week he’s finally gotten to where we want him to be: he’s cutting gigantic logs. In the coming weeks, he’s going to be cutting a maple crotch that’s 60 inches (1.5 meters) across.
It’s still a bit early, but here are the details for the 2017 Open Hardware Summit. It’s October 5th in Downtown Denver. If you want to speak at OHS, here you go. If you want to sponsor OHS, here you go. Tickets are over on Eventbrite.
What happens when you give away a new Raspberry Pi Zero W to the fifth caller? This. In other news, Adafruit somehow acquired a real New York City payphone. I’ve heard they were replacing these with WiFi hotspots, which means there are a ton of payphones in a warehouse somewhere? Can anyone hook us up?
I know they had that payphone since at least 2008ish – some LadyAda pay phone hacking here: https://youtu.be/-ikOgzOApIc?t=11m21s
Well all I know so far is that the Pi Zero W has not arrived in Brooklyn as of last week.
The Micro Center shipment of the Pi Zero W was delayed in customs (https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/5xbzbn/just_got_back_from_the_microcenter_in_tustin_ca/deh3h58/) They only received it on Friday but the stores should have (or had) stock now.
I received a tracking number from UPS, but it only shows “label created”. UPS picks up from them in the afternoon, so we’ll see tonight.
What a ridiculous thing to do to build a saw mill in your back garden. I love it.
Statistically speaking, celebrities do not exist.
HaD said: “Statistically, more celebrities died in 2016 than would be expected.”
Careful HaD, NEVER say something like this without reference/citation and a clear Disclaimer that you are not connected in any way to the source. You did not do this in this post.
2017 is turning out to be a little better..
Was expecting different results…