LET'S MAKE PCBS (⌐■_■)ﾉ♢

28 Aug, 2025

COOL STUFF

• This house beautiful flooring and wood accents

• Gumball Machine Rings

COOL PEOPLE

• Nick Offerman on why to make

• Japenese rajinikanth superfan

COOL MATH

• Wierd bubbles in weird shapes

• Veritasium The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything

COOL ANIMALS

• Baby elephant protecting mama from chicken

COOL PAINTING HACKS

• Watercolour flowers cool techniques/loose strokes

COOL BUILDS

• Floating magnet light build

• Workshop charging station

• AAAAAAAAA The robotic arm of my dreams

• Prototype PCBs at home

• Death to Laundry kind of

• Rahul Mishra's Mumbai museum as possible inspiration for a workshop?

• Light fixtures, how to think about lighting a space, and transformable lamps

• PrintLab- replacing traditional wired circuits with 3D‑printed circuit board using conductive tape

• Process of making and producing physical electronics

COOL VIDEO HACKS

• New angle to do a talking video lying down and filming top-down

IDEAS

• Gaia hypothesis, daisy planets

• Did Truman always know?

• 7 light principles in interior design in the format you want:

1. Ambient Lighting {overall illumination, base layer, for movement, usually ceiling, recessed, or large windows}

2. Task Lighting {focused light for activities like reading, cooking, grooming, often desk lamps, under-cabinet, or vanity lights}

3. Accent Lighting {highlights features like artwork, textures, or plants, examples: spotlights, track lights, picture lights}

4. Decorative Lighting {aesthetic purpose, fixtures as design elements, examples: chandeliers, pendants, sculptural lamps}

5. Natural Lighting {daylight from windows, skylights, or glass walls, enhances energy and mood, balanced with artificial lighting}

6. Mood Lighting {sets atmosphere, softer/adjustable light, examples: dimmers, wall sconces, LED strips, warm bulbs}

7. Layering of Light {combination of all lighting types, creates depth, dimension, balance, and adaptability in a space}

COMEDY STUFF

• Drew Lynch

• Leanne Morgan on weight watching

WATCH THIS

• Driving Miss Daisy {should I? I've heard a bunch about it, did it age well? presumably not}

*Coda

*Roma

COOL WEBSITES

• Fashion Blog with cool tea pot cursor Where did I get that

QUOTES

• " In the old days at home the Neverland had always begun to look a little dark and threatening by bedtime. Then unexplored patches arose in it and spread, black shadows moved about in them, the roar of the beasts of prey was quite different now, and above all, you lost the certainty that you would win. You were quite glad that the night-lights were on. You even liked Nana to say that this was just the mantelpiece over here, and that the Neverland was all make-believe.

Of course the Neverland had been make-believe in those days, but it was real now, and there were no night-lights, and it was getting darker every moment, and where was Nana? " first heard in episode of Alien Earth

COOL SONGS

AI vs Human DJs “catchiest songs” roundup

From a CNET-featured AI experiment where multiple AI systems and veteran human DJs each shared their top “catchiest songs of all time.”

ChatGPT’s picks:

• “Wannabe” — Spice Girls
• “Uptown Funk” — Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars
• “Happy” — Pharrell Williams

Gemini’s picks:

• “Bohemian Rhapsody” — Queen
• “Livin’ on a Prayer” — Bon Jovi

Copilot’s picks:

• “Shape of You” — Ed Sheeran
• “Call Me Maybe” — Carly Rae Jepsen

Veteran DJs’ picks:

• Van Morrison – “Brown-Eyed Girl” (Mark Pomeroy)
• Bon Jovi – “Livin’ on a Prayer” (Mark Pomeroy)
• Chappell Roan – “Pink Pony Club” (Sloan Lee)
• Fleetwood Mac – “Dreams” (Sloan Lee)
• OutKast – “Hey Ya!” (Sloan Lee)
• ABBA – “Dancing Queen” (Sloan Lee)