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Making Austin Weird: LASA Robotics

October 5, 2008 – 12:39 am
From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I'll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! Austin's high-schoolers will be bringing some world-quality robotics to Maker Faire Austin: Here's a video of one of their creations in action: I'll see you (and the robots) 10/18! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Maker Faire | Digg this!

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Used bike sales pick up in face of rising interest rates

October 5, 2008 – 12:38 am
Used bike market is considered to be larger than the new bike market.Read more...

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Gripples - Rope locks…

October 5, 2008 – 12:38 am
Doug writes in -I use a lot of aircraft cable for installing/building artworks, often with pressed ferrules and turnbuckles to make adjustable lengths. Kind of a pain, but it works. At the ArtBots show this weekend I was introduced to Gripples -- they're kind of like zip ties, but for aircraft cable. Some of them are even reversible! They seem to be well known in Europe and Asia, but I've never seen them in the US. I think they might be common in theater rigging. They're a bit expensive, but so convenient! As soon as I get home I'm going to order a bunch to see if they're really as useful as they appear to be... Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Toolbox | Digg this!

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Making Austin Weird: Mice, Mouse, and More Mice

October 5, 2008 – 12:37 am
From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I'll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! We've got so many wonderful Maker Faire Austin projects this year that you can take a random word and find multiple projects on that topic. Take, for example, "mouse": Be careful with the mousetrap catapult gun: Check out Herbie the Mousebot at the Maker Shed: And marvel at the Life-Sized Mousetrap: Find these micey projects and many more 10/18! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Maker Faire | Digg this!

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HOW TO - Make a networked graffiti wall

October 5, 2008 – 12:37 am
Nice how-to over on Hack a Day making your own networked graffiti wall... Ian writes- Wondering what we did with our web server on a business card project from last week? It’s powering a giant LED graffiti wall. Animations can be user-submitted using the online designer. You can watch a live feed of user animations as well. The online interface runs on the Google App Engine for maximum scalability and resilience. In today’s How-to we cover all the ins and outs of building your own networked graffiti wall. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!

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Making Austin Weird: Hair and Balanced

October 5, 2008 – 12:36 am
From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I'll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! I'm excited to let you all know about a very hairy device debut occurring at Maker Faire Austin: the Hair and Balanced TV Filter Kit. In the Maker's own words: The Hair and Balanced TV Filter taps into the composite video input to your TV, detects whether you are watching talking head pundits or newscasters, then draws moustaches on the faces on the screen. The TV filter is a new kind of hardware shield that helps users take control of their screen. Read more here, and make sure you're at the expo center for the mustachioed fun! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Culture jamming | Digg this!

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Electric cars catch attention at Paris Automobile Show

October 5, 2008 – 12:35 am
Some of the manufacturers have displayed only prototypes. For example, Renault displayed the ZE Concept. Other vehicles that were displayed like Daimler AG’s Smart ED, have already entered the test phase. Read more...

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Pedal powered tank

October 5, 2008 – 12:35 am
Nice pedal powered tank on Pop Sci! If you want to crash a local parade of human-powered vehicles and soak unsuspecting onlookers in water or vaporized hot dogs, a pink camouflage tank is a pretty good craft to do it in. At least that's what 30-year-old Philadelphia gearhead Vin Marshall thought when he persuaded nine of his friends to build the 2,000-pound replica, complete with a functioning pneumatic cannon. The trick was moving the tank using muscle alone. Computer models showed that it could fit hardware for six pedalers and yield about 1.5 horsepower. That's not enough to move tank treads, so the team used wheels instead. Then they gave it bicycle-like gearing to get more power from less exertion. A salvaged rear differential (which allows wheels to spin independently) from an old truck axle made turning more efficient. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Bicycles ...

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100 skills everyone should know…

October 4, 2008 – 12:48 am
Popular Mechanics has a quiz, a list and videos of 100 skills everyone should know, the article says "men" but as I went through the list I know more women who can do more of the skills than men, so I'm going to suggest they call it "100 skills everyone should know"... check it out, see how you do. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Online | Digg this!

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Incredible pumpkin carvings by Ray Villafane

October 4, 2008 – 12:48 am
Sculptor Ray Villafane carves these incredible pumpkins; step-by-step instructions are here. We'd love to see photos of your pumpkins - add them to the MAKE flickr pool! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Halloween | Digg this!

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