Missed my girl Lauren Bacall’s birthday yesterday (1924-2014).

Fun Fact: I love Bacall and To Have and Have Not (1944) so much I had a checked suit made to look like the one her character Slim wears in the film. I was 16.

#ForeverFilmGeek #HappyBithday #LaurenBacall #Bogie #GOAT #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #BogieAndBacall

Happy Humphrey Bogart day on TCM, to all who celebrate!

#summerunderthestars #TCM #TCMParty #Bogie #humphreybogart #classicfilm #SUTS

Got a barometer? Who does these days? I do. It's about as low as I've seen it. Needle is below 9 o'clock. Think of that as 'bogie at 9 o'clock', heard in every dogfight movie ever.

#weather #toronto #bogie

Here’s tonight’s Friday Night movie quiz. The movie we just put on stars Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov, Joan Bennett, Basil Rathbone, and Leo G. Carroll!

No checking IMDB*, any guesses?

(*unless you want to.) #film #filmstodon #bogie

In today’s episode of Scotty Gets Lost in Switzerland I set off for Bogis, because my Anglo-brain pronounced it Bogies and I’m just the right age to have watched Dick and Dom with a hangover. Anyway, didn’t make it (shocker), tried to cycle up a 15% gradient - nearly died - and found some people hunting boar.

Bike started making a funny noise so I cut the ride short and came home. Washed & inspected and I think I need to replace my front brake pad. New skill time!
#cyclingstory #bogie #biketoot

3D-Printed Scale Model of Perseverance Rover Seems as Complicated as the Real One

Sometimes the best way to figure out how something works is to make a model of it. 3D-modeling software makes it possible to do the job in silico , and sometimes that's enough. But to really get inside the designer's head, executing a physical model, like this quarter-scale RC-controlled Perseverance rover, is a great way to go.

If you're looking for cutting-edge tech or groundbreaking design, this build will probably not light your fire. But a closer look will show not only great details about how JPL designs robots that can operate on Mars, but some great design and 3D-printing tips too. [Dejan]'s modeling process started with the 3D renderings of Perseverance available on the NASA website, which went into SolidWorks via Blender. [Dejan] was intent on capturing all the details of the rover, even those that ended up just for looks. But there's plenty of functionality, too -- the running gear looks and functions just like the six-wheel double-bogie design used on Perseverance, as well as Curiosity before it. This revealed an interesting fact that we didn't previously realize -- that the hull is suspended from a single pivot point on each side, while a linkage across the deck both prevents the body from pivoting and provides differential control of the drive bogies on either side of the rover.

The video below shows both the impressive amount of 3D printing needed to make all the model's parts as well as the involved assembly process. It also shows the Arduino-controlled model being piloted around via radio control. There's a lot to learn from this model, and [Dejan]'s craftsmanship here is top-notch too. We've seen such builds before from him, like this 3D-printed SCARA arm, a CNC hot-wire foam cutter, and an automated wire bender.

#robotshacks #space #bogie #curiosity #mars #model #nasa #perseverance #rover #scale