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Turntable (presentation contraption) construction.

Disclaimer: most of the footage has been shot over two years ago and might seem a bit odd here since it predates the whole "tinkering" series. ... Music: My Train's A Comin' Unicorn Heads (YouTube Audio Library - CC)

Blockchain technology is revolutionizing the way in which information is stored and shared. It facilitates the creation of a distributed public ledger of transactions that is transparent, secure, self-validating, and cannot be forged. Tampering or tinkering with the data is impossible as a copy exists with every user or participating nodes. With diverse applications in numerous industry sectors from maintaining land records, establishing identity, banking industry, making academic credentials universally recognizable and verifiable, real estate, voting, Internet of Things, healthcare and many more, blockchain technology is disrupting the existing practices across various industry verticals.

Diverse Landscapes Colombia's equatorial position affords it a diversity of landscapes matched by few countries. A slight tinkering in altitude takes you from sun-toasted Caribbean sands to coffee-strewn, emerald-green hilltops in the Zona Cafetera. Continue to climb and there's Bogotá, the bustling cradle of Colombia and third-highest capital city in the world. Go up another few thousand meters and you find snowcapped peaks, high-altitude lakes and the eerie, unique vegetation of the páramo (high mountain plains). The bottom drops out as the Andes give way to Los Llanos, a 550,000-sq-km swath of tropical grasslands shared with Venezuela, often called the Serengeti of South America.

Limor Fried is the founder and engineer behind Adafruit Industries which makes electronics kits that teach soldering, tinkering, and technology exploration. One of their projects, the Tweet-a-Watt, is a wireless modification to a common off-the-shelf home energy monitor, the Kill-a-Watt. The Tweet-a-Watt not only monitors your energy consumption, it sends the information to Twitter so you can track it online, which reveals usage trends over time. Besides selling a Tweet-a-Watt kit, Adafruit has also put the open source plans online for all to freely build and share, creating a network of makers watching their usage and swapping energy-saving tips.

This is like an exceptional quality version of your standard khaki work boot, exceptional. The Bastion is a good looking work boot, with durability as its main feature. The Pro Grade rubber helps maintain tread depth through daily use while the EVA foam midsole absorbs unwanted shock. This reduces fatigue so when you get home from work or tinkering in the shop, you'll have plenty of energy to build that upstairs loft your wife keeps asking you about.

This is like an exceptional quality version of your standard khaki work boot, exceptional. The Bastion is a good looking work boot, with durability as its main feature. The Pro Grade rubber helps maintain tread depth through daily use while the EVA foam midsole absorbs unwanted shock. This reduces fatigue so when you get home from work or tinkering in the shop, you'll have plenty of energy to build that upstairs loft your wife keeps asking you about.

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Sin Fang Bous covers Fleetwood Mac's Landslide in his Reykjavik studio. He picked up the tune while tinkering on the piano at home over the previous few weeks after the birth of his daughter and reckons that it's probably the first song he's learned by heart. Not a bad place to start huh? Shot and edited for gogoyoko.com by Stuart Rogers with sound by Sindri Már Sigfússon.

LL is finally updating the Havok physics engine in Second Life. Weee! I feel like newbie again. I spent many hours tinkering with the physics when I first logged into SL almost two years ago. This new update is pretty impressive so far - still only on the beta grid tho. The speed improvements are quite noticeable, and the Sphere prim is especially intersting now that thethe .01 meter gap from the old system is gone. Spheres can actually collide and rest against other objects now. Even for a beta test the system seems pretty stable at one point I had roughly 1,500 physics enabled boxes in a huge pile. The sim sort of hiccuped for a moment, but then went about it's business like nothing was happening. :)

Sheriff Tim Gobble welcomes young Andrew Coggin back to the BCSO for another stint as a technical intern and cyber jack-of-all-trades. You didn't get to meet him last year, so we want to make sure you get to meet him now. Andy's an almost-graduate of Tennessee Tech and proved to be of invaluable assistance to the BCSO last year with his skills in data entry, digital tinkering and all around handy manliness. He also serves as a Reserve Officer when time permits. Young Andrew is master of his domain, his knowledge is extensive, his travels are legendary, and girls ... he's single. -- BCSOtv

Yet another talking head, featuring a medley of vocal clips from Rare's Nintendo game, Starfox Adventures. CharleyFox's excellent Krystal model, prepped and rigged for Poser 7. I spent about a day tinkering with visemes before testing the lipsync capabilities in Mimic. Haven't added any expression morphs yet, beyond rudimentary brow motion and eyeblinks.