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Station Crew Captures Dragon

The International Space Station Expedition 31 crew successfully captured the SpaceX Dragon capsule with the station’s robotic arm at 9:56 AM EDT. The feat came 3 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 23 seconds after the mission’s launch. The station was 251 miles over northwest Australia when capture occurred.

Following its capture, the SpaceX Dragon capsule was positioned at the end of the International Space Station’s robotic arm for installation onto the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module. ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers and NASA astronaut Don Pettit were at the robotic work station in the space station’s cupola.

NASA astronaut Joe Acaba is standing by to bolt the Dragon onto Harmony through commands he will issue from a laptop in the Destiny laboratory. Although the crew is running slightly ahead of schedule in the installation procedures, a specific time for berthing cannot be predicted.

The SpaceX Dragon capsule was securely bolted to the Harmony module of the International Space Station at 12:02 p.m. EDT. A mission status briefing is scheduled for 1 p.m. to discuss the day’s events, which will air on NASA TV: www.nasa.gov/ntv.

Watch the videos: http://youtu.be/iBIyE14c3XI (capture), http://youtu.be/UqXTmJ0-I-I (berthing)

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“Well, I’ve been on blind dates before. Matter of fact, to be honest, I’ve been picked up before.”

Kim Novak as Judy Barton in Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

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Hellraiser paper toys available for download.

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Custom Fisher-Price Toy Records 

Instructibles guide to make your own toy records, here demonstrated with “Stairway To Heaven”:

From Fred27:

I recently stumbled across and old toy record player made by Fisher Price in the 1970s. I’m sure many of you will recognise this iconic toy … As with many 40-year old toys, it was in a bit of a sad state and a couple of the records had been lost. Technology has moved on since it was manufactured and making some new records for it seemed like a nice way to merge old technology and new.

3D printing a record might seem like the obvious choice these days, but I decided to go with CNC milling.

Why a mill you ask? Not a laser cutter or a 3D printer? Well we can’t use a laser cutter as the record needs slots in the surface but these don’t go all the way through. Laser cutters are great if you don’t need any partial depth cuts, but we do. 3D printing the record would seem to be a sensible choice and would definitely do the job. However, we will end up creating plastic pins around 1mm in size that trigger the music box hidden in the record player’s arm. I was worried about whether the extruded plastic technique used by most printers would give it the required strength. 

Fred27 also put together a piece of code to help edit the music for one of these disks.

You can read the whole How-To here