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Submission + - NASA Releases Columbia Crew Survival Report

Submitted by Migraineman on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @04:41PM

Migraineman writes: NASA has released a 400-page Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report [16MB PDF.] If you're interested in a detailed examination and timeline of the events leading to the destruction of Columbia, this is well worth the time. The report includes a number of recommendations to increase survivability of future missions.

Submission + - Print Messages on your Beer

Submitted by

Migraineman

on Saturday January 13, 2007 @01:09PM

Migraineman writes: "I stumbled upon a clever hack by Sprite. He reverse engineered the pin functions on an HP inkjet cartridge, and built a simple driver board that converts the cartridge into a hand-held inkjet printer. The driver board is programmed with a fixed message. Moving the "print head" is your responsibility, but it leads to some interesting applications. Printing messages on a whiteboard was the original inspiration, but printing messages on the foam head of a Guinness is just inspired."

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