Off topic fun

Friday fun: DVD delivery drone

Drones are a popular hacking topic. For many people they are serious on Drone DIY, but you can also make fun with them. Netflix mocks Amazon Prime Air with hilarious ‘Drone 2 Home’ video is a very fynny advertisement. It make bogus claims that Netflix has come up with a new DVD delivery service –

Friday Fun: Scientists explain their processes

Scientists explain their processes with a little too much honesty and Scientists explain their processes with a little too much honesty [17 pictures] articles show a series of pictures that might find funny. Back in January, scientists started making “secret” confessions on Twitter and some some kind soul combined a few of these Tweets with

Friday Fun: Mobile fish tank

Hackaday told some days ago that a machine vision company Studio diip based in The Netherlands has created  an interesting fish on wheels, a robotic car controlled by a goldfish. The system appears to work pretty well on the video. This is quite funny looking system. A Logitech 9X0 series camera captures overhead images of the

Chrome + LEGO: You can build whatever you like

Think back: you’ve just dumped a bin of LEGO® bricks onto the floor with a satisfying crash, and you have the whole day ahead of you to build whatever you want. There’s something pretty amazing about being able to piece together your ideas with just a collection of colorful bricks. Google has released an interesting Build

Friday Fun: Internet memes

An Internet meme (/ˈmiːm/ MEEM) is an idea, style or action which spreads, often as mimicry, from person to person via the Internet, as with imitating the concept. What Is a ‘Meme’? What Are Examples of Modern Internet Memes? and The 100 Greatest Internet Memes of All Time articles will give you some examples. Know

Friday Fun: Source Code in TV and Films

Source Code in TV and Films page shows images of the computer code appearing in TV and films and tells what they really are. British programmer and writer John Graham-Cumming started a blog called Source Code in TV and Films on Jan. 3 after noticing that code used to reboot the futuristic space station in

Friday Art: Star Wars toys photos

Star Wars toys photos look more realistic than the real Star Wars shows amazing work of Finnish artist Vesa Lehtimäki aka Avanaut, a brilliant illustrator and photographer who likes to take pictures of his kids’ toys in his spare time. Check out these series of Star Warstoys set in the real world. Check also Beautiful

Friday Fun: The NSA Product Generator

The NSA Product Generator automatically generates weirdly-codenamed fictional NSA spying products beyond the wildest paranoid’s dreams. Every time you refresh the page, you get a new product information page. They look so real it’s almost scary. The NSA Product Generator was inspired by the recent dump of NSA’s TAO product catalog.

Friday Fun: Air-Powered Lego Hot Rod

I have earlier shown some amazing Lego building projects on this blog, but this one is over the top: An Australian entrepreneur and Romanian tinkerer have built an air-powered full-size car out of LEGO. The car has homepage at www.superawesomemicroproject.com. Here is a video of that Life Size Lego Car Powered by Air. It is