I was hoping for a little firefighter homunculus.
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Jan 22, 2016
What's inside a fire alarm
Glorious collection of control panel photos
Control Panel is a fantastic visual blog “in praise of dials, toggles, buttons, and bulbs,” a companion to the Control Panel group on Flickr.
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These mid-century control rooms are sheer eye candy
These power plant control rooms are so cool looking that they don’t even seem real. This site, called Present /&/ Correct, has a nice gallery of them. Above image is from the nuclear ship Savannah.
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Make: Soviet themed launch-code box complete with missile switch covered toggles
Love puzzles, crypto, making, control panels and nuclear extinction? John Edgar Park has a maker project for you!
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Your barista may be at home, but that doesn’t mean your coffee game should suffer
Gather round, young and old — and hear tales of bygone days. Back in olden times, citizens would mass at a house of coffee, wherein skilled java alchemists would concoct special blends and apply artisanal wizardry to make each steaming chalice an appointment for the taste buds. Granted, said wizards, once known as baristas, were […]
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Everyone needs a first aid kit and these emergency bags could make all the difference
The last few weeks have given us all a lot to think about. As we watched stores close, Costco lines snake through parking lots and items like hand sanitizer and toilet paper disappear everywhere like they were Lady Gaga tickets, there’s one significant takeaway it’s safe to say we all can agree on. We should […]
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Learn to play the piano, but not in that horrible after-school way you’re thinking
Whether it was Bach or Chopin, Ray Charles or Jerry Lee Lewis, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Alicia Keys or Norah Jones, there was someone whose mastery on the piano made you think, wow, I wish I knew how to do that. It’s a singular, almost timeless skill — and if you love music, there’s no […]
