Okay an amazing robot arm made of cardboard.

Robot Arm (Video)

“Pluto’s haze layer shows its blue color in this picture taken by the New Horizons Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). The high-altitude haze is thought to be similar in nature to that seen at Saturn’s moon Titan.” From Nasa.gov.

“On April 5-14 2017, the team behind the Event Horizon Telescope hopes to test the fundamental theories of black-hole physics by attempting to take the first ever image of a black hole’s event horizon (the point at which theory predicts nothing can escape).” from Space.com.

It’s certainly true that Conway’s Game of Life is one of those wonderful toys that’s brings joy when you take it out of the drawer every once in a while.

There was a post this morning based around a Youtube video of a full implementation of Life written in APL, as a single function of course.

I don’t remember where I read this last week, but the idea if binary candles is brilliant. You can represent any age up to 127 with seven candles! If you understand binary, you already know what to do.

Another, small (some under $20) single board computer series.

Pine64

Though I’d rather read a longer, more detailed history of the teletype (which is easy to find, see Wikipedia below), this is a nice overview of the UNIX/Linux TTY.

The TTY demystified
Teleprinter on Wikipedia

“A couple of years ago, Microsoft made the decision to begin a multi-year investment in revitalizing our engineering system across the company.”

This post on flame graphs is an interesting data visualization used, in this case, for plotting disk usage.

Flame graphs for file systems

The ARM is one of the most popular processors today. Think the iPhone, Raspberry Pi. I decided I should learn more about it since I knew almost nothing about the ARM architecture.