Bamgoo: electric car built from bamboo 11/27/2008 This doesn’t quite look like the most crash-safe vehicle ever designed, but electric power plus bamboo construction does provide a...
Building a Baghdad battery 11/27/2008 Here’s an Instructable on building primitive batteries, interesting not so much for its (low-current, low-voltage) results but as a nice...
DIY oil change… 11/26/2008 There are many Instructables about changing your oil, but only one starts like this: I learned to do oil changes...
Dorkbot NYC: the 110208th dorkbot-nyc meeting 11/26/2008 The 110208th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 at Location One in SoHo. The...
Portland Event: Dorkbot PDX 0x02 11/25/2008 For those of you in Oregon, here’s a dork-tastic event on December 7th: DorkbotPDX brings you Collin Oldham, Shelly Farnham...
Unfocused Brain: hallucination generation trance machine 11/21/2008 James Delaney’s created The Unfocused Brain, an interesting variation on Mitch Altman’s Brain Machine: This program and schematic is designed...
Austin Event: Nerdcore Rising 11/21/2008 This Friday, MC Frontalot himself will be at the Austin premiere of Nerdcore Rising. Tickets and more info here. Whether...
Electric Lamborghini 11/21/2008 Not made by the Italian company, but by ambitious maker Zach Radding. Here’s his most recent test drive video: The...
Best of Maker Faire: Austin Underground’s films 11/21/2008 I understand Maker Faire Austin is done and gone, but I’m still thinking about how much fun it was. Over...
Chainless bikes: becoming mainstream soon? 11/21/2008 The non-chain on the new Trek Soho It looks like Trek may succeed in making non-chain bikes mainstream. Via CNN:...