European Extremely Large Telescope
“The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), with a main mirror 39 metres in diameter, will be the world’s biggest eye on the sky when it becomes operational early in the next decade”
Aside from the having a most unimaginative title, this looks like it could be the shit.…
Travelwide 4×5
Most of you photographers out there may already know about this, but it’s worthy of a post anyway. Wanderlust Cameras have started a Kickstarter project to fund the production of their Travelwide 4×5; an easily-portable large-format camera. Looks pretty neat – good for creating unadulterated, no-thrills, 4×5’s.…
Spark Chamber
Lucy Pullen’s Spark Chamber makes cosmic rays visible by using the ionised path created through a gas medium to bridge a gap between high voltage plate, causing a spark. Find out more about spark chambers here and here.
Pullen also made a cloud chamber, serving a similar purpose but instead condensing a stream of alcohol vapour.…
Crafting a Formula 1 Car
To kick off our post-a-day month: Some incredible footage of just some of the processes used to craft a Formula One car.…
Ramesh Raskar on Femto Photography
SUPER-slow-motion. …
10,000V Tesla Cannon
So I’m thinking we build one of these before Paddy gets home and spring it on him as he comes through the door? Seriously though guys, nice work. (via) …
Dynmic Braking
Nicely presented little infomercial on dynamic braking. Feels a little like this video I made two years ago. (source) …
The Marmalade Identity
Definitely take the time to watch this all the way through, but it only starts to make perfect sense at 2.30. I WANT TO PLAY HIGH-SPEED. …
Portal Gun IRL
Fucking, ABSOLUTELY 100% YES. …