Fun new video from The Slow Mo Guys.
Are you sure you know what you’re looking at when you’re down the arcade?
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Fun new video from The Slow Mo Guys.
Are you sure you know what you’re looking at when you’re down the arcade?
Get in on the Internet Archive‘s fun virtually or IRL (1920’s period costumes encouraged):
On January 20, 2022, the Internet Archive, Creative Commons and many other leaders from the Open world will honor the treasure trove of works published in 1926 that will enter the public domain next year. The public domain will grow richer with canonical works from authors like Hemingway, Faulkner and Dorothy Parker, silent film classics like Nanook of the North, and beloved children’s stories about Winnie-the Pooh and the Hundred Acre woods, becoming freely available to all.
Due to the recently enacted Music Modernization Act in the U.S., approximately 400,000 sound recordings from the pre-1923 era will join the public domain for the first time in our history. That’s why this year our theme is a Celebration of Sound.
Read more and check out the events here and here
There is a good mix of news and highlights in the Adafruit Blog. Staying true to trend you all love to learn about the Raspberry Pi. Scroll through to see the top 10 most viewed blog stories of 2021:
10.) Spraying Resin on 3D Prints?
9.)Arduino Pro hardware is not open-source hardware
8.) DIY Teeny Tiny Nintendo 64 console
7.) Louise Katzovitz’s Inventions Include Self-Laced Corset
6.) Die shots of the Raspberry Pi RP2040 chip
5.) Nine Raspberry Pi alternatives in 2021
4.) How to Build Your Own Android TV Box with Raspberry Pi
2.) Raspberry Pi 3 Fastboot – in less Than 2 seconds
1.) The Best of 404PageFound, and Other Primitive ’90s Websites That Still Exist
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Meat alternatives typically rely on a number of plant materials to mimic the texture and nutritional value of traditional meat. Most common among these materials are soy and wheat gluten, so researchers set out to develop a dough made of these materials which could be extruded through a printer, built up on a plate, and able to hold its shape. The team tried a number of different ingredients added to the soy and wheat gluten to get the dough they wanted, and eventually settled on an unlikely partnership. Surprisingly, the best ingredient turned out to be fat derived from cocoa beans, more commonly known as cocoa butter.
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Meat alternatives typically rely on a number of plant materials to mimic the texture and nutritional value of traditional meat. Most common among these materials are soy and wheat gluten, so researchers set out to develop a dough made of these materials which could be extruded through a printer, built up on a plate, and able to hold its shape. The team tried a number of different ingredients added to the soy and wheat gluten to get the dough they wanted, and eventually settled on an unlikely partnership. Surprisingly, the best ingredient turned out to be fat derived from cocoa beans, more commonly known as cocoa butter.

Limor (ladyada) told me a story from when she was in high school today that was so good, I asked her if we could share it on our blog (and I checked with Mudge and Kingpin too!) –
this past week, i’ve been spending a lot of time doing fun hacker-coding stuff with floppy disks. like many folks my age, i grew up using computers with floppy disk drives: c64’s, boxy macs, early pc’s, apple ii’s so, i started thinking a bit more about my first computers. back then, like it is now, i was made fun of or disbelieved when i told folks about the projects i was working on – lots of people saying girls just weren’t “really” into that kinda stuff! but i do have some great memories…
the high school i went to had a small IT department, and i would help out after school. i think i did simple stuff like wrapping cords, installing software on 50 computers in the lab, doing basic hardware swaps and repairs. or maybe i just played games – i’d like to think i was helpful
this was in 1997 or so, and the computer programming lab got a full renovation – used to be all apple 2’s (i thiiiink they were //gs but maybe they were //c’s?) and got converted to PCs. the old computers were all stacked in the basement cage when the IT director said that the school was going to toss them all out, but if i wanted some i could take them home before they were dumpstered. nobody was really using 2’s anymore by that time!
i was hanging out at the l0pht and other hacker spaces at the time, and i knew if there’s one thing that hackers *love* its free hardware! i contacted joe grand (a.k.a. kingpin) to let them know there was a great stash for picking, and joe came over to help dig through the pile. we fished out some of the best hardware and stacked it in front of the highschool quad. then Mudge (Peiter Zatko) pulled up in front of us in this INCREDIBLE BITCHIN BLACK MUSTANG COBRA. every high school kid who was outside smoking and skating stopped at once, and turned to look as i got in, with apple ii’s piled on my lap. i became the coolest person overnight (briefly), everyone wanted to know how i had a friend with such a great looking ride!
There are good people in the world, doing good and helping each other, we all get to decide if we’re going to be that person each day, I hope these stories we post will show the potential in all of us, that weirdo girl who likes computers – help make that spark that can make the next Ladyada, we need more of people like her out here. That person online, a “newbie” we were all beginners once, help them out – ya never know what they could become.

Pictured here, not THE car that Mudge had, but close from what I am told!

Limor (ladyada) told me a story from when she was in high school today that was so good, I asked her if we could share it on our blog (and I checked with Mudge and Kingpin too!) –
this past week, i’ve been spending a lot of time doing fun hacker-coding stuff with floppy disks. like many folks my age, i grew up using computers with floppy disk drives: c64’s, boxy macs, early pc’s, apple ii’s so, i started thinking a bit more about my first computers. back then, like it is now, i was made fun of or disbelieved when i told folks about the projects i was working on – lots of people saying girls just weren’t “really” into that kinda stuff! but i do have some great memories…
the high school i went to had a small IT department, and i would help out after school. i think i did simple stuff like wrapping cords, installing software on 50 computers in the lab, doing basic hardware swaps and repairs. or maybe i just played games – i’d like to think i was helpful
this was in 1997 or so, and the computer programming lab got a full renovation – used to be all apple 2’s (i thiiiink they were //gs but maybe they were //c’s?) and got converted to PCs. the old computers were all stacked in the basement cage when the IT director said that the school was going to toss them all out, but if i wanted some i could take them home before they were dumpstered. nobody was really using 2’s anymore by that time!
i was hanging out at the l0pht and other hacker spaces at the time, and i knew if there’s one thing that hackers *love* its free hardware! i contacted joe grand (a.k.a. kingpin) to let them know there was a great stash for picking, and joe came over to help dig through the pile. we fished out some of the best hardware and stacked it in front of the highschool quad. then Mudge (Peiter Zatko) pulled up in front of us in this INCREDIBLE BITCHIN BLACK MUSTANG COBRA. every high school kid who was outside smoking and skating stopped at once, and turned to look as i got in, with apple ii’s piled on my lap. i became the coolest person overnight (briefly), everyone wanted to know how i had a friend with such a great looking ride!
There are good people in the world, doing good and helping each other, we all get to decide if we’re going to be that person each day, I hope these stories we post will show the potential in all of us, that weirdo girl who likes computers – help make that spark that can make the next Ladyada, we need more of people like her out here. That person online, a “newbie” we were all beginners once, help them out – ya never know what they could become.

Pictured here, not THE car that Mudge had, but close from what I am told!