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Ingvar Santry
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A science communicator, science art artists. Irregular notes on the approaching singularity.
April 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
April 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
What does AI have to do with it? The thing is, this three-dimensional model was developed using generative neural networks. Its appearance and forms were created through a collaboration between human and computer. It's an embodied digital dream. An object that has never before existed in reality.
April 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Example: Check out the Tesla vs Edison timeline - fascinating to see their parallel journeys visualized!
wiki-timeline.com/timeline/Tho...
Wish I had this back in college!
#infographics #timelinetools #WikiTools
Comparative Timeline: Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla - Interactive Historical Visualization | WikiTimeline
Compare historical timelines of Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla. Visualize and contrast key events chronologically with our interactive comparison timeline. Perfect for historical research and education.
https://wiki-timeline.com/timeline/Thomas_Edison|Nikola_Tesla?view=interactive
April 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
7/7 McLellan made ten motors total, but all were eventually broken. The one he loaned to the BBC was accidentally crushed by a microscope lens during focus adjustment.
#NanoTech #Innovation
April 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
6/7 "Feynman had seen many oddballs who didn't understand the challenge. When I brought a large box, he said, 'Oh, here's another one.' But I opened it, and there was a microscope. He was surprised."
#Feynman #ScienceHistory
April 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
5/7 After five months of painstaking work using a miniature lathe and primitive tools - a toothpick and fine brush - McLellan assembled 13 separate components into a working motor with 1/80 millimeter wires.
#Microfabrication #STEM
April 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
4/7 The watchmakers taught him techniques like making ultra-thin wire by rolling it between two microscope slides - creating wire much thinner than what was commercially available.
#Precision #MicroEngineering #Innovation
April 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
3/7 "Most galvanometer technicians were former watchmakers, and I learned a lot from them," McLellan explained in an interview: www.theguardian.com/science/2004...
#Craftsmanship #Microscale #TechHistory
Honey, I shrank the motor
In an obscure corner of Caltech, Philip Ball meets the engineer who rose to Feynman's nano-challenge.
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
2/7 Feynman proposed this challenge in his famous lecture: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's...
A year later, Bill McLellan, a 1950 Caltech graduate working on galvanometers, walked into Feynman's office with a box.
#Engineering #MicroTech
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
April 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Art critics might say this object explores "the material dialectics of being and non-being within the context of postmodernist everyday discourse." I'll just say it's a damn beautiful vase with a hole in the middle.
#MinimalistDecor #HomeDecor #PrintableArt #3DDesign #TopologyArt #3DArtwork
April 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Robot made of human cells controlled by machine mind (singularityhub.com/2024/09/30/t...) — ugh...

Nurse, acute Baader-Meinhof! Three CCs of offline, stat!
This Biohybrid Robot Is Made of Human Cells and Controlled by a Machine 'Mind'
A new biohybrid robot can be steered left, right, or straight by activating neurons and muscle cells embedded into its fins.
singularityhub.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM