Boiledbeans

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2013

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Did I seriously miss adding a title?

—devadutta @ 21:47

This is a sprinkler connected to a pump. When the pump is pressed (the rubber sphere in the end), the sprinker rotates. As expected.

What happens when the pump is released? What is this problem called as?

BTW, this is one of the most debated topics among internet noobs and all.

Cracked by: Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, s m muneer ali, Manish Achuth and Rogi

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Feynman’s reverse sprinkler. The sprinkler will not rotate in the opposite direction, but if you place it in an idea fluid and replace all the ball bearings in the sprinkler with ideal bearings, it will rotate in the opposite direction. I think :)


Like a boss

—devadutta @ 14:34

Identify

Cracked by: Rogi and Manish Achuth

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An Autoped from 1915. Pretty cool.


Friday, November 22, 2013

Pick up some ammo

—devadutta @ 14:50

Cover design for which game?

Cracked by: Rogi, Anjul, Manish Achuth and Sumanth Patlolla

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Wolf 3D. Yeah!


Thursday, November 21, 2013

Whose RISC processor?

—devadutta @ 02:02

Horray! BB is not dead.

Identify and connect

Cracked by: Rogi

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Vegard Wollan and Egil Bogen, people who invented AVR Micro-Architecture, whose names are hidden in AVR. Arduino boards generally have an Atmel AVR on them. Thus the connect. Wokay?


Sunday, September 15, 2013

She-What?

—devadutta @ 01:55

What is DMR talking about here?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Dibyo, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, Anjul, ranuvikram, Shwetha Maiya and Mayukh Bose

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#!


Friday, September 13, 2013

Will the header have a guy staring down at you?

—srikanth @ 14:08

You can probably guess this one straight from the question. Printed version of what? Surprisingly small, if you ask me.

Cracked by: rickde, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, nivinpaul, buk, saswat11, Anjul, Ananth and Saarthak

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Printed version of about 0.01% of the Wikipedia - 5000 pages. So the whole thing would be 5e5 pages, which is still smaller than I expected


Wednesday, September 11, 2013

In case of humanity reset, read this

—devadutta @ 13:56

What is this?

Cracked by: rickde, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, nivinpaul and Ananth

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Georgia Guidestones, set of guidelines to humans after an apocalyptic event.


Saturday, September 7, 2013

Tick Tock

—devadutta @ 09:24

Final panel of one the most awesome comic strips of all time[1]. Identify

[1] According to me :)

Cracked by: Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, rickde and Supritha Maiya

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XKCD’s epic 3000+ panel comic, Time.


Thursday, September 5, 2013

Freezing?

—devadutta @ 23:01

Identify and connect 1, 2 and 3 (explain how 3 changed 2)

Cracked by: Dibyo, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, rickde, Mayukh Bose, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Supritha Maiya and aparna

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When Anders Celsius invented the temperature scale, he put 100 degrees as the point for freezing and 0 degrees as the point for boiling. Carl Linnaeus, waited until Celsius had died to change the scale to the way we read it today.


Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Fly, robin, fly

—srikanth @ 11:04

This awesome technique is used by gliders and birds alike to build speed almost effortlessly. What’s it called?

Cracked by: Dibyo, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi and rickde

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Dynamic Soaring - the birds use wind-speed gradients to their advantage to fly in a wavy motion that lets them soar for miles without slowing down.