We live in a post-billiards age. There was an age of billiards, and it has been over for so long, most of us have no . Retail spaces are designed for impulse shopping. Oakland Raycats now in the 99pi store! April 26, 2015.

A few month hiatus from this blog turned into five and a half years, but that is a much longer story. This one is about the state of desktop spherical displays in 2018. In 2011, I hacked together the Snow Globe spherical display. And the code for the Science on a Snow Globe application to display equirectangular images and videos is on GitHub.

Burlington Hacker Book Club! Posted by Matt Cropp. For more details and updates, RSVP to the Facebook event.

To make science a cultural activity. We spend our time developing programs to prototype our ideas for hardware, software, and media which support scientific investigation. Got a lead on something that might interest us? For submission early 2013. Inspired by the community events of Great Small Works.

Monday, June 29, 2015. Glass frame screw caps for exterior house doors. The rear entry area of our home is very dark, so we decided that an easy way to add light was to replace our old, drafty, malfunctioning rear entry door with a modern door with a glass panel to allow more light. Our first problem was that our rear door happens to be pretty small - 30 inches wide. Missing screw caps in the glass frame. So, I took some careful measurements, 3D printed some screw.

The Patent Office fire of 1836 stole the core history of our early industrial culture from us. Among the ruins we lost dozens of patents relating directly to locks. This project is my personal attempt to recover as much information as I can about each of those locks. I have a publicly-viewable Zotero library. You can read about the Campbell permutation lock. And I could really use your help! .