OnlinevortexNo, it’s not about putting something on top of your toast, it’s about toasting it with whatever you want: an image, a small text, etc…
In Evil Mad Scientists they are working on a toaster device to draw with a Hot-air gun and a X-Y motion control system.
The imagination of Star Wars fans has no limits. To promote a fans association/event one of the members got the idea to create a balloon with the shape of the head of one of the most recognizable movie villains.
After getting authorization from Lucasfilm, they start working and 8 weeks later the balloon was ready. The size is 26 meters tall, 21 meters in the widest part and a depth of 24 meters. It can contain about 3000 cubic meters of air and the weight is 320 kg.
Interesting post from Jesus Encinar in which he recommends the steps to follow in creating a start-up.
These are basically:
Beside a brief explanation of why each step, he also mentions some of the common mistakes at the start of a business, and I say business because those not necessarily apply only to Internet start-ups.
A few days ago NASA published the images taken by the STEREO mission probes, actually they are videos and some animations in 3D that are impressive if you see them with the required 3D glasses (you know, the ones with blue and red lenses).
But looking around I found a link in Isopixel to other impressive images of the sun.
Recently Eclipse has been giving me problems, closing suddenly, troubles to start, too slow to start and when I was updating some plugins it started to some weird things when I write, every letter appeared to the left of the previous one. So I decided that it was time to change IDE and I found that NetBeans has added support to Ruby/Rails in a plugin and the reate of updates and new features is fast, so decided to try it.
From the start it seems to use less resources than Eclipse, and better yet, if you only need an IDE to Ruby/Rails there is a reduced version of the IDE (just 22MB). But what is interesting is that they are constantly adding options and features without letting bug fixing on a side.