Robert L. Read

Here is the video of last night's Inventor Gathering, entitled "Imagine you are a young Tony Stark..." youtu.be/dZfNLWPcgNU

In two hours I will be giving a free talk that invites you to imagine that you are Tony Stark (or Your Favorite Genius). It is really about making embedded systems: eventbrite.com/e/public-inven…

In 10 minutes, at 8:00 PM Central, Bert Rothenbach and I will talk about "The Crisis in Universities and What to Do about It": eventbrite.com/e/public-inven…

nothing. It may be that translation, which in highest quality requires a mastery of the target and source languages, cannot be undertaken by beginners without hubris. But possibly there is some intermediate project? The creation of detailed summaries?

Salve magistra @SaturaLanx_Lat! A question in honor of your birthday, Ms. Regini: What can beginning Latin speakers due to recover/breath live into old texts which are not available in translation, or have not been translated in more than 200 years? Possibly the answer is:

I'll be leading a conversation on #silviculture and #opensource in about 20 minutes, even though I am not an expert; but I do have some thoughts: eventbrite.com/e/public-inven…

Thursday night we had an interesting Inventors' Gathering on the subject of the Beauty of Computer Programming: youtu.be/JAQI3JtWK9o

In 15 minutes I will speaking on the "Mind Blowing Beauty of Computer Programming". I cannot hope to do it justice, but I feel it is an important topic. eventbrite.com/e/public-inven…

...of manufacturing it at a tiny scale on a microchip for either cooling or lab-on-a-chip applications. But of course everything that @pubinvention does is free-libre open source. This is a gift given freely to the world, the best and least appreciated kind.

Possibly I am just not very bright, but it has been a great struggle to produce a theory explaining it. This is a one-way valve that has NO solid moving parts---it consists only of ferrofluid, a shaped chamber, and a magnet. The economic value is in the possibility...

We have been working on this for more than 2 years, but Joe has been helping me for 6 months. Scientific/engineering research is often frustrating. Although everything is subjective, I think is a true "invention"---not only novel, but perhaps surprising that it is even possible.

Last night with @joe_hershberger we had a great success with our passive ferrofluid check valve invention: first time consistently have a collapse pressure 10 times higher than the cracking pressure. Go here for more: github.com/PubInv/ferrofl…

Dorotea Gucciardo of @Glia_Intl, who is working in Rafah, gives her account of Sunday's tent massacre and explains how Israel has wrecked the ability of healthcare workers to respond to these catastrophic attacks

It's not if, but when. Will we be ready? Join us for a High Stakes Conversation on #pandemic preparedness & #OxygenAccess 30 April - register 👉shorturl.at/pEFI7 With @nita_madhav #RamananLaxminarayan @PriyaBasu2017 @nschwalbe @Pandemic_Fund @OneHealthTrust @Ginkgo

Our free virtual Gala with Dale Dougherty is happening in an hour; click on the image to get a free EventBrite ticket.

Hey, this is a reminder that Public Invention is having its free, virtual Gala with Dale Dougherty, founder of Maker Faire and Make magazine as guest speaker. This is Thursday at 8:00 Central Daylight Time.

I hope you can join Public Invention in honoring it volunteers of 2023 and hearing form Dale Dougherty!

@paulg I'd attempt to "cheat the rocket equation" by building a system of projectile transfer between a rocket and base to resupply it with reaction mass and energy. Catching the projectiles would be hard, but doable.

Interesting question to ask researchers: what would you be working on if you could get a grant to study anything?

I just published How Not To Age: A Review link.medium.com/cQEsNcApLGb

Along with @ChristinaOSMS and @jaquavictoria I've written an essay about our new, free, means of tracking anything, but in particular the beautiful things made by #Makers. This is really important, please share: pubinv.org/2023/11/30/tra…