Year: 2010

Cosmic Cooker Howtoon

Howtoons just released another great toon; this one lets your kids get in on the backyard BBQ action without starting any fires! The Cosmic Cooker Howtoon teaches kids about the physics of solar power, the geometry of parabolic reflectors, and the importance of a classic summer meal (I personally would also experiment with s’mores). The […]

THE ART OF THEO KAMECKE

THE ART OF THEO KAMECKE

For the months of July & August I helped put together “The Big Build – THE ART OF THEO KAMECKE” one of my favorite (living) artists… Theo Kamecke was for many years a film maker of award-winning documentaries whose subjects ranged from astronauts to coal miners, rodeo cowboys to nuclear scientists. He was in mission […]

All-terrain bicycle

All-terrain bicycle

Bike hacker Peter Wagner, whose work has graced this blog a zillion times, has created this aquatic(?) bike equipped with flippers for driving through water and mud. Stock fork surpassed by adding rear 2/3’s of a full suspension mountain bike as the springer front end. Double rimmed drum brake 16″ laced to 26″ alloy, get […]