Robert L. Read

Head Coach of Public Invention (@pubinvention). Public Inventor. Esperanto speaker. Free-libre open source software, hardware, inventions. He/him.

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Here is the video of last night's Inventor Gathering, entitled "Imagine you are a young Tony Stark..." https://t.co/SM7pn2YxwL

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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: https://t.co/6FKfW7l57w

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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": https://t.co/P3xqw64Wzh

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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?

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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:

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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: https://t.co/1ttrXuB0uT

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Thursday night we had an interesting Inventors' Gathering on the subject of the Beauty of Computer Programming: https://t.co/LpW2Yo96YE

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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. https://t.co/NxeBukRj3j

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...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.

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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...

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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.

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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: https://t.co/WEWsnmIWh4

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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

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It's not if, but when. Will we be ready?

Join us for a High Stakes Conversation on #pandemic preparedness & #OxygenAccess

30 April - register 👉https://t.co/o9s2Rwpcex

With @nita_madhav #RamananLaxminarayan @PriyaBasu2017 @nschwalbe @Pandemic_Fund @OneHealthTrust @Ginkgo

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

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In just an hour and a half, at 8:00 Central, the free online Public Invention annual awards cermeony and gala featuring Dale Dougherty of @make will begin. Learn about Public Invention's projects and help us honor our award winners! https://t.co/6B8BAFTuo9

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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.

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Please join us for our free, virtual, annual Gala and Awards Ceremony, featuring Dale Dougherty as a guest speaker: https://t.co/6B8BAFTuo9

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

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Please join us for our free, virtual, annual Gala and Awards Ceremony, featuring Dale Dougherty as a guest speaker: https://t.co/6B8BAFTuo9

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@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.

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I just published How Not To Age: A Review https://t.co/te4zVIBKhU

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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: https://t.co/rKDVQsF1Xm