#mechanics
It is easy to take things you see and use on a regular basis for granted, and the aluminium beverage can is probably one of them. There is a reason it is such a ubiquitous object – it features an ingenious design, using the right material for the job. Bill Hammack (engineerguy), from the University of Illinois, explains why this can is made as it is.
Magic: the Gathering - Streets of New Capenna Families
Choose your tech and personal style for Family Feud :
⁜Brokers/ the green-white-blue family, and their signature mechanic is shield counters.
⁜Obscura/ white-blue-black family, and their signature mechanic is connive.
⁜Maestros/the blue-black-red family, and their signature mechanic is casualty.
⁜Riveteers/ the black-red-green family, and their signature mechanic is blitz.
⁜Cabaretti/ the red-green-white family, and their signature mechanic is alliance.
What will you latch onto?
Unveiled VR is well underway, with the majority of our core mechanics in and working we’re making some decent progress!
Our biggest target now is improving polish and feel, ensuring our bowplay hits gold.
Follow us on twitter to keep up to date with progress!
Take a look at Unveiled (@UnveiledVR): https://twitter.com/UnveiledVR?s=09
29/03/2018
Lectures note on kinematics!
That wood bottle in the background is from the brand S’well and it defies thermodynamics!!!
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In dnd, resurrecting PCs becomes so easy at higher levels, and though I think that’s a positive, I really like the idea that dying has lasting consequences or triggers events in a PC. Here’s a simple table of interesting but hopefully not game breaking or character destroying ideas. Thoughts? Improvements?
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Meet Makeshift/Jack. Jack lives with her foster father “Uncle” in a junkyard in the outskirts of Rothaven, a once great automotive city but has since been abandoned and fallen apart. With a lot of the jobs gone, many resident turn to crime, including some of the politicians. Jack makes a combination of gadgets and mechanical battle armor with parts she gets in the junkyard to fight the bad guys as the superhero Makeshift! But with the bad guys becoming more and more high tech, will Makeshift be able to outsmart them?
This is another story I’ve been working on that I want to someday make into a cartoon. I’m still fleshing out the character designs but I’m happy with my progress so far!
Edit: a producer from Cartoon Network’s Steven’s Universe suggested I send it to them once I’m finished polishing the story, this could be good!
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Things on the Mongol Rally rarely go as planned.
For example I was supposed to write a fulsome update to the blog two days ago rather than an hour before we leave Odessa.
Then again we thought we might arrive in Odessa on Saturday rather than Monday, and…
Edmé Mariotte – Scientist of the Day
Edmé Mariotte, a French physicist, died May 12, 1684; we have no idea when or where he was born, or how old he was at his death.
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Simon Stevin – Scientist of the Day
Simon Stevin, a Dutch mathematician, physicist, and engineer, was born in Bruges in 1548 and died in 1620; we have no exact birth or death dates.
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The Partial Solar Eclipse of March 20th 2015 by Josh Dury
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Flow
Premiering in the summer of 2019 is a web series that we have been working on titled ‘Flow’ which is aimed at expressing the beauty of Fluids through the looking glass of a slow motion camera.
Here is a trailer to the upcoming series. Hope you guys enjoy it!
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