How the Great Green Wall Is Holding Back the Sahara Desert(kottke.org)

108 points by gazsp 2 years ago | 34 comments

I made a floppy disk from scratch(kottke.org)

187 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 72 comments

How photos were transmitted by wire in the 1930s(kottke.org)

430 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 107 comments

A kottke.org post embedding a 1937 video explaining how wire photos were transmitted to newspapers in the 1930s.

Building Lego Machines to Destroy Tall Lego Towers(kottke.org)

242 points by dev_tty01 2 years ago | 40 comments

The Lego Great Ball Contraption(kottke.org)

277 points by mhb 2 years ago | 45 comments

The Underscore Music Player(kottke.org)

23 points by tobr 1 year ago | 1 comments