Follow up on the solar powered scooter – With Don approaching 1,000 solar-powered miles (he has 932 and counting), Don’s scooter seems to still be going strong. In fact, it has been five months since Don last had to charge it. In those five months, Don has been driving his scooter almost every day going around 11 miles on the average day. By occasionally giving his scooter a day off, he is able to make sure that his scooter always has a charge. Link.
Excellent interview over at Gizmodo – Among certain fetishistic subcultures of the consumer electronics world, there seems to be a common credo: “If it’s not hackable, it’s worthless.” Putting this saying to the test is Roger Ibars, a designer-slash-researcher based in London. Ibars’ work involves hacking into and “modding” vintage console game controllers and other devices such as alarm clocks and calculators. Link.
My pal Mike made his own duct tape iPod nano case – “I got annoyed that nobody was shipping Nano cases until next month. So I made my own. Badly”. He uses it for running. Link.
These are shoes, but not as we know them, Toto. Worn Again take materials like charity store coats, ex-military parachutes, prison blankets, car seat scrap leather, old towels and recycled rubber, crafting them into some funky looking trainers… Link.
A MAKE subscriber sent this in to us, look really interesting “A Foot powered lathe plans in pdf or e-book form – I haven’t tried this but from reading it, I can say it appears to be the best design of several I’ve looked at. And it’s free!” Link.
Wow, I need to try this – Everything you modify, create or download during a Live-CD session is kept in memory until the computer is rebooted; then it’s all lost. More precisely, it WAS lost until SLAX came out and the new era of portability began… Don’t carry your settings along with you anymore, just remember a secret pass phrase! Link.
DaveC writes “Great Australian site for Car Tuning, but not just the bolt on/mechanical stuff, they have many articles about hacking the various control systems of your car. I haven’t ever seen this in U.S. Tuning magazines as they tend to be more low tech in scope. Perhaps a liability issue in the U.S. prevents this sort of low level hacking?” Link.
