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MachinePix Weekly #46

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MachinePix Weekly #46

This week's most popular post was a mysterious truck filled with sharks šŸ˜®šŸ¦ˆšŸ›»

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Jun 4, 2021
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MachinePix Weekly #46

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My friend Spencer, editor of the (much more punctual) newsletter The Prepared, is hosting a reading club for Adam Rogers’s new book Full Spectrum. Those of you that know me know that I am fascinated with color and color perception, and I’m very excited to start this book.

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Very excited to read @jetjocko’s new book on color science with @the_prepared’s Members’ reading group starting this week:
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4:45 PM āˆ™ Jun 2, 2021
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The most popular post this week was a flatbed truck transporting sharks. This was filmed near Baltimore, so many assumed this on behalf of the National Aquarium. In a surprising twist, a spokesperson for the National Aquarium said ā€œthe animals were not headed to or from the National Aquarium and we did not have any involvement in the transportā€ā€”so who was trucking sharks?!

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Transporting sharks.
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3:01 PM āˆ™ May 27, 2021
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I’m always looking for interesting people to interview, have anyone in mind?

—Kane


The Week in Review

The coarse blue material used in masks that was in short supply at the start of the pandemic is called ā€œmelt-blown extrusion,ā€ and there aren’t many machines that can make it.

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Manufacturing pleated surgical masks.
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4:37 PM āˆ™ May 28, 2021
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Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a ā€œsynthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethyleneā€ā€”but you probably know it as Teflonā„¢. If you’ve ever done plumbing or pneumatic work, you also know that PTFE tape is a godsend.

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Winding rolls of PTFE tape.
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6:16 PM āˆ™ May 26, 2021
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xkcd once said that subcultures are nested fractally, and RC is no exception. Did you know the fastest RC glider reached 392 mph?

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Retractable propeller in an RC glider designed by Eugenio Pagliano.
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5:22 PM āˆ™ May 25, 2021
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God bless practical effects.

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Large creature reference test for visual effects by @AceRuele.
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6:41 PM āˆ™ May 24, 2021
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Postscript

Uber’s helipad in SF with Sutro Tower in the background.

If you enjoyed this newsletter, forward it to friends (and interesting enemies). I am always looking to connect with interesting people and learn about interesting machines—reach out.

—Kane

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