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Bentley Scanned All 630 Parts Of The 1929 Blower To Rebuild The Legend
Just last September, Bentley announced it would be painstakingly recreating 12 examples of its most famous race car, the 4 1/2-litre boosted 1929 Blower Bentley. Those plans hit a major milestone this week as engineers pushed through the current crisis to finalise the CAD modelling of every part of the original Blower.
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Duck Gifs Are The Only Gifs With Integrity
Gifs lit up Web 1.0 like Las Vegas — the torches, crystal balls, humping muppets, dancing babies, mailboxes opening and closing to indicate that you’ve got mail — all signalling that crimson castles, their divorced dads clubs, and in-browser spaceships were hip and exciting places to be. In honour of an arbitrary anniversary, marking the…
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Genius Converts An ’80s Intercom Into A Google Home With Raspberry Pi
All photos: Instructables / MisterM When it comes to homebrew projects, Google is actually a pretty cool company. Unlike some of its rivals in Silicon Valley — particularly in Cupertino — the search giant sometimes likes to help people hack into its hardware and make it their own. The latest example of this fine tradition…
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How To Purposely Make Brand New Furniture Look Completely Vintage
The world we currently live in loves the old world we used to live in. Kind of. Everyone gets lovesick with nostalgia and pines for the good ol’ days but no one will ever really go back in time because it means like our iPhones will be older and Facebook won’t load as fast. So…