Collaborate Disseminate
Okay, so we’re opening with more than just a keyboard, and that’s fine. In fact, it’s more than fine, it’s probably the cutest lil’ ZX Spectrum you’ll see today. [SrBlonde]’s …read more Continue reading Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Transmitting Typewriter
Many small camper vans are built to double as everyday three-row MPVs complete with seven or eight seats. Typically such camper vans require removing or installing seats and other equipment when switching between camping and daily driving modes. A new … Continue reading 7-seat Toyota MPV stashes covert micro-RV gear for impromptu camping
If you can’t build out, build up. It works for city buildings, and a Japanese design firm is trying to make it work for city bikes. The Streek electric trike from Yokohama’s Envision Incorporated carries two levels of cargo inside a high-rise loop fram… Continue reading Multi-level cargo trike rolls like the Japanese kei van of ebikes
A ski lodge-inspired concept camper is always a fun spin on the all-season RV, but if you already operate a network of actual ski resorts, hot springs hotels, glamping retreats and other rustic getaways, the idea of building a lodge into a motorhome is… Continue reading Japanese concept camper car lives like a rolling slopeside igloo
Nostalgia aside, there are a few things an analog scope can still do better than a digital, with oscilloscope art being a prime example. The blue-green glow of phosphors in a real CRT just add something special to such builds, …read more
Continue reading Oscilloscope Learns How to Speak Japanese, and VGA
The gorgeous Shoji-style lamps you’re seeing here aren’t made of wood or paper. Beyond the LEDs illuminating them from within, the lamps are completely 3D printed. There aren’t any fasteners or glue holding them together either, as creator [Dheera Venkatraman] used authentic Japanese wood joinery techniques to make their components …read more
From Japanese to Lakota, the show’s foreign language episodes spotlight themes of identity and memory. Continue reading How ‘Westworld’ Uses Multilingualism to Explore Prejudice
In Japan, tea ceremony (cha-dou) is revered as a way to a gain deeper insights into life and philosophy. Traditional Japanese tea ceremony practitioners put in long hours to master the intricacies and details of pouring tea. The road to becoming a tea master is crucial as it develops the practitioner’s mental state as well as physical technique.
However if you don’t have time to master the “way of tea”, then you can build a bot and automate your zen experience. That’s exactly what the people at Ano Labs did when they built their Japanese Tea Ceremony Robot #151A.
The …read more
We’d never seen an iconoscope before. And that’s reason enough to watch the quirky Japanese, first-person video of a retired broadcast engineer’s loving restoration. (Embedded below.)
Quick iconoscope primer. It was the first video camera tube, invented in the mid-20s, and used from the mid-30s to mid-40s. It worked by charging up a plate with an array of photo-sensitive capacitors, taking an exposure by allowing the capacitors to discharge according to the light hitting them, and then reading out the values with another electron scanning beam.
The video chronicles [Ozaki Yoshio]’s epic rebuild in what looks like the most amazingly …read more
