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Apple iPod engraver
A former Apple web designer recounts building the iPod engraving page for the online store in the mid-2000s, with design…
Around the World, Part 30: Making Better Waves
A deep dive into rendering pixelated water waves, covering how the author models and draws ocean waves in a procedural w…
ASCII Characters Are Not Pixels
A beautifully illustrated deep dive into rendering images as sharp ASCII art, using shape vectors and interactive demos…
Aspen Moviemap
Michael Naimark's account of the Aspen Moviemap, the 1978 MIT project that let users virtually drive through Aspen decad…
Atomic Clusters
A visual write-up of building a molecular particle simulation where simple bonding rules make atoms clump into clusters,…
Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages
A charming personal project in which the author prints years of iMessage history into paperback books, with the scripts,…
Automatypewriter
A hobbyist build log showing how an old electric typewriter was hacked with solenoids and a microcontroller so a compute…
Bastet
The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum explains Bastet, the cat-headed goddess of home and protection, and why cats were treate…
Bayleaf Wireless Keyboard
Sebastian Graz documents building the Bayleaf, a low-profile wireless ergonomic split keyboard made from scratch, with t…
Belshazzar's Clock
A project write-up on a night clock that shows the time with a rotating luminous-painted drum lit by ultraviolet LEDs, c…
Beowulf
A diacritically marked text of Beowulf with facing translation and images of the manuscript reproduced by permission of…
Beskid
The story of the Beskid, a 1980s Polish small-car prototype from the FSM and BOSMAL engineers that anticipated the one-b…
Best of 2014: Sculptural Structures
A photo-led roundup of the most striking sculptural structures built in 2014, showing where architecture crosses into ar…
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Bestiarum Minimum
Free printable paper cut-outs of mythical beasts - griffin, unicorn, cyclops, minotaur, dragon, hydra and Medusa - that…
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Beyond The Picket Fence
A home-decor DIY blog centered on budget-friendly projects using reclaimed wood, thrift-store finds, and repurposed mate…
Bizarre Movie Posters From Africa
A gallery of hand-painted 1980s and 90s Ghanaian movie posters, wildly colourful and outrageous portraits of horror, act…
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Black History Charts, 1900
A gallery of the striking hand-drawn, hand-colored data charts W.E.B. Du Bois and his Atlanta University students made f…
BLDGBLOG
A long-running blog by Geoff Manaugh exploring architecture, landscape, and the built environment through speculative es…
Bright Wall/Dark Room
An online film magazine publishing personal essays and criticism about movies, exploring what cinema means to the people…
Brighter Than a Cloud
Claire L. Evans tries to describe the shimmering migraine aura called a scintillating scotoma, drawing on art, science a…
Brownstoner
A Brooklyn real estate and architecture blog tracking historic building restorations, neighborhood history, and the boro…
Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand
A build log of a laptop stand cast from solid concrete in the style of brutalist architecture, drawing on themes of urbe…
Building a 42-Inch E Ink Art Frame
A build log of a 42-inch E Ink frame for displaying generative AI art in an office, covering the hardware choices and th…
Building an Interactive Plotter Art Installation
A behind-the-scenes essay on building an interactive plotter art exhibit for SIGGRAPH, covering the planning, applicatio…
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