It’s Tuesday. I’ve been an AC/DC fan since I was a teenager in the 80s. My absolute favorite song of theirs has always been It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock and Roll) from the 1976 High Voltage album. It’s one of those rare rock anthems that punches you in the face with pure attitude and then completely surprises with—of all things—a killer bagpipe riff! Bon Scott whipping out the pipes is pure rock ’n’ roll chaos—bizarre but somehow totally badass. The guitars are snarling, the rhythm is driving, and then suddenly you’ve got Bon wailing on bagpipes! It’s crazy, it shouldn’t work, but somehow it does and it turns the whole song into this glorious celebration of doing things your own way—loud and proud, as only AC/DC can deliver.
AC/DC has been back on the road, and before their show in Melbourne, something downright epic happened: 374 bagpipers gathered to try and set a world record for the largest bagpipe ensemble. Not only did they pull it off—they shattered the previous record of 333 pipers set in Bulgaria back in 2012. And, of course, you can guess what song they fired up!
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February 21, 1976
It’s Monday. Thanksgiving is still a good ten days away, yet somehow everyone’s attention has already laser-locked onto Christmas. For the handful of holdouts who hadn’t put up their decorations yet, the unusually warm weather on Friday and Saturday became all the motivation they needed to get out there and deck every last hall. People were up on ladders, stringing like 40,000 lights while I’m still over here trying to finish my leftover Halloween candy. Overnight, half the neighborhood started glowing like it’s auditioning for a holiday-themed power-grid failure. Is it really too much to ask that we at least wait until the Thanksgiving turkey has been carved? At this rate, by 2030 folks will be hanging wreaths in mid-July.
Bowling Anyone?
It’s Wednesday. 3D printing is just downright cool—it’s like having a tiny factory on your desk that turns imagination into something you can actually hold. One minute you’re staring at a digital model on your screen, and a few hours later you’re holding that exact thing in your hands, layer by precise layer. Today’s 3D printers can do it all—whether it’s custom gadgets, replacement parts, wild art pieces, or maybe even your own… bowling alley?
Maker Danny Lum spent a year and a half designing, engineering, and building a fully functional miniature bowling alley—complete with an automated pinsweeper and pinsetter, camera-based scoring, and a motorized ball return. Now that it’s finally finished, he’s releasing everything you need to build your own: 3D-print files, materials lists, wiring diagrams, code, and step-by-step instructions, all available through Kickstarter.
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