MachinePix Weekly: Top Posts of 2021
A look back at the Top Ten posts of 2021—some expected, many not 🛀🍁
Now that it’s 2022 for everyone in the world (looking at you, American Samoa (SST) and Niue (NUT) UTC-11:00), it’s time to look back at the most popular @machinepix posts of 2021 based on analytics.twitter.com.
I realize this is unfair to later posts which have had less time to steep in the broth of the Internet, so take the following with a grain of salt.
#10: Bold Bathtub on a Buggy
Absurdity always seems to perform well, and this is no exception. For you superfans, go forth and live your best life.
#9: Soothing Seascape Sculpture by Sylvain
Sylvain’s seascapes were much appreciated this year. Poor guy makes amazing sculptures only to be out-SEO’d by a Fire Emblem character 🥲
#8: Terrifying Tree-trimming Technology
I have a confession: every few months I post a version of this when I’m in a pinch for new material. It’s such a wild piece of machinery that people love it every time 😅
#7: Alarming Atlas Android Accidents
Poor Atlas, destined to be scapegoated as a harbinger of a robot uprising when it succeeds, and laughed at when it fails. It’s tough being a robot.
#6: Radical Ring Receptacle
I got to interview Brian Ignaut about his creations in 2020!
#5: Adorable Automaton
Disney Research publishes some incredible technical work and has a fascinating YouTube channel.
#4: Humongous Hydraulic Hole
Dams are a technology that keeps on giving gifs.
#3: Macaque Masters Mind-over-Matter
Brain-machine interfaces are fraught with ethical and philosophical considerations (and rightfully so), but damn this is pretty cool.
#2: Robotic Rack Rovers
I think the reason this made #2 is because Elon Musk commented on it. For the sake of accuracy I should have mentioned the video is sped up.
#1: Mass Manufactured Marijuana
Congrats to drugs for winning the War on Drugs! Honestly didn’t expect this one to be the winner this year but here we are.
If you enjoyed this newsletter, forward it to friends (or interesting enemies). I am always looking to connect with interesting people and learn about interesting machines—reach out!
—Kane