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A CubeSat high above the Earth

The National Science Foundation has issued a RFP for researchers interested in the CubeSat.  According to Wikipedia, the CubeSat is “a type of miniaturized satellite for space research that usually has a volume of exactly one liter (10 cm cube), weighs no more than one kilogram, and typically uses commercial off-the-shelf electronics components”.  The satellites are then ganged onto existing rockets allowing for low-budget space research.

Needless to say, when I first read about the CubeSat a few years ago I thought that conceptual art and data-driven art projects truly need to get launched into space.  Anyone have a few spare centimeters?

Image via: Wikipedia

Stenotype machine; I love the all-black keys.  Possible controller design?

Also a Velotype keyboard (don’t know much about this but surprising-looking).

And a braille writer from 1928.

Amazing and unexpected and totally Modernist, I love these ship camouflage patterns from the early 20th century.  Thinking about repainting my car like this.

Via: Twisted Sifter
Also a great gallery of original designs on the RISD site.

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