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How Slow Scan TV Shaped The Moon
lee wilkins on slow scan TV, the technology that brought the moon landing to the masses.…
lee wilkins
lee is an artist, cyborg, and scholar based in Canada. They are an outer space researcher, soft circuits enthusiast, and chair of the Open Hardware Summit.
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Notes, 2023-10-09
lee wilkins on the complexities of 3D printing clay.…
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Notes, 2023-07-17
lee wilkins on the enduring challenges of designing vessels to explore the deep seas.…
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Notes, 2023-05-08
lee wilkins on aperiodic tesselations, the materiality of pigment, and the beauty of encoder traces.…
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Notes, 2023-02-06
lee wilkins on the intersections of textiles and computing, historical media storage, and liquid mirror telescopes.…
2022-10-31
lee wilkins on AI image generation, automata, and the history of visualizing the cosmos.…
2022-08-01
lee wilkins on the history of visualizing the cosmos and 555s (both the timers and the fictional telephone prefix).…
2022-05-02
Lee Wilkins on the wild history of ballooning, bathrooms in space, and radioactive toys.…
2022-01-31
Lee Wilkins on the Overview Effect, waterjet cake cutting, and kanji typewriters.…
2021-09-27
Lee Wilkins on hacking vintage tech and nationalist visions of space from around the world.…
2021-07-26
lee wilkins on Canadarm, HydroQuebec, and the full catalog of Apollo program experiments.…
2020-07-13
Notes, 2020-07-13.
Very abruptly in the last 2 weeks I packed up and moved from Toronto to Montreal to work…