This Day in Blogging History: Backyard control-panels; 3D Printcrime illos; Stross on Mini-PCs

One year ago today

Make a backyard control panel with your kids: This project is perfect for cleaning out junk drawers and miscellaneous tools and hardware.

Five years ago today

3D fan-illustration for Printcrime: Greg Elmensdorp was inspired by my story Printcrime (a short-short story I wrote for Nature Magazine) to created this blue-red 3D illustration.

Ten years ago today
Stross on mini-PCs: . Tiny, cheap, fanless PCs with trailing-edge processors — only 1GHz — are nevertheless a really amazingly cool idea, especially when you start thinking in terms of turning them into personal video recorders (running things like FreeVo) or in-car GPS navigation systems.