NASA, WOTW & Modular Design - The NASA Nostalgia

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• WotW
  • JP Wack from Santiago,  Chile
    • Bench with awesome labels!
    • Other work
  • Troy Rank from Rochester, NY
    • Bench page
  • Stynus from Belgium
    • Project page (tons'o'projects!)
    • Workbenches
    • And workbenches with Stynus in the picture
• Followup
  • The 6502 was laid out by hand by one person!
  • A new study out found that ASUS was the most environmentally friendly company of large commercial manufacturers.
• Suggestions
  • Eddie suggested we were being hypocritical for railing against eWaste and promoting CFLs simultaneously. Chris and Dave want to have low power DC in the home to cut down on ballast electronics needed.
• Discussion Point
  • CES is going on this week but is way commercial. Who cares?
  • Listener Brian J Hoskins is designing what he hopes will be a universal interface for instrumentation on a helium balloon he is designing.
  • Is anyone younger than 30 still wearing watches these days?
  • VOTE FOR DAVE in the iiNet Top Geek competition! (no need to sign up, just click the VOTE button!

EDIT: A new user-made promotional video about NASA (credit goes to reddit). Inspiring and beautiful:

http://www.youtube.com/v/oY59wZdCDo0

And one that’s much more rock and roll:

http://www.youtube.com/v/NXkuo1yihjs