Lab Weekly 39/18

Hi!

It just occurred to me that Etch-A-Sketch was the Flappy Bird of the Sixties - fascinating but frustrating as hell, so you kept going. But it's 2018 so Sunny Balasubramanian wrote software and built hardware to help.
http://sunnybala.com/2018/09/10/python-etch-a-sketch.html

Eric Strebel loves paper sketchbooks and customizes them for personalization. This time, he hacks a sketchbook to contain an iPad "to combine the analog of sketching and digital content world that we all live in into a convenient package." Also, it's a stand.
https://www.core77.com/posts/79953/How-to-Hack-a-Sketchbook-to-Store-a-Hidden-iPad-Mini

The New York Times teamed up with a group of scientists to create an online tool that shows how much hotter your hometown has gotten since the year you were born.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/30/climate/how-much-hotter-is-your-hometown.html

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences developed a lightweight, wearable soft exosuit that's basically a soft robot to help people move.
https://wyss.harvard.edu/technology/soft-exosuit/

NASA 'Home and City' is an interactive tool that showcases the very earthly results of space research - right down to your Ovation guitar.
https://homeandcity.nasa.gov

Have a great week!
-- Dirk