Watching this video I was amazed. I all of the sudden want to grab a ream of paper*, find a nice 25+ story building here in Napa and see how it goes. Then I realized I have a small issue… no buildings allowed to be higher then 4 stories. That said the only change I [...]
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I’ve seen many examples of art or just wow with Tesla Coils. This is a great example of both. Plus with the added benefit of timeliness. Peter Terren loves toying with Tesla coils. The 51-year-old Australian doctor bailed on his physics major during his first year of college, but that didn’t stop him from pursuing [...]
Almost straight out of the Flinstones an art exhbit got pulled over by Toronto police… make that an ’86 Buick… Michel de Broin, an artist, had totally stripped down a 1986 Buick Regal and outfitted it with 4 independent pedal and gear mechanisms. This was part of ‘art’ piece being exhibited at the Mercer Union [...]
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Here is an interesting little video that shows a little ingenuity. Without a normal power source and you want to McGuyver a charge for your ipod?
Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters from the parts. “It took me eight months to build this one,” he said, sweat pouring from his forehead as he filled the radiator of the banana [...]
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There is a 3 member community for using GNU Emacs as a video editor based on GPL-ed free software: mplayer and avidemux. They now have now a working proof of concept GNU Emacs video editor mode in an alpha stage. GNU Emacs is used for composing an Edit Decision List using mplayer for previewing films [...]
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OK I missed it again. I kept telling myself I wouldn’t miss Maker Faire, but as usual something came up. In this case the local Home and Garden Show, a Local Library Book sale, and my parents Anniversary. All minor things I’m sure in comparison to all that went on at Maker Faire. But as [...]
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After going through the Napa Home and Garden Show this weekend. And then reading and looking at all the great pictures of the MakerFaire (Post with links next), I ran across this great tutorial on building a treehouse. FamilyFun.com has a great step by step set of instructions to help you build a simple treehouse. [...]
I was reading an article about a guy who out of a labor of love built a full size replica of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In reading it I was reminded: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and James Bond Both written by Ian Flemming Both produced by Albert R. Brocolli (his only non-Bond Film) Baron Bomburst [...]
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Ok, a client has his old USB printer die and decides to pick up a new machine from Epson. He follows the steps to install it, but it refuses to work. When print jobs are sent to it, it shows that its printing but then the spool throws up warnings and says it lost connection. [...]
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