Picture tour of the Edison-Ford Winter Estates…
Here’s MAKE contributor Joe Grand (Grand Idea Studio, Inc.) and the Edison-Ford Winter Estates, 2350 McGregor Blvd., Ft. Myers, Florida. Tons of great photos. The estate is a very cool place with some amazing early prototypes of Edison’s work (one of the original hardware hackers). Certainly worth a visit if you’re ever in the area. Link. Hey Joe, nice shirt!
Peter writes “Since atomic clocks worldwide will add a leap second New Year’s Eve 2006, we decided we wanted to immortalize the moment in sound. Create a one-second piece of music and email it to us, and we’ll have the results by New Year’s. It’s the ultimate in economical music — meaning uncompressed audio (AIFF/WAV) is perfectly kosher!”
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If your car’s air condition is broken, or if it just doesn’t have one – this summer you might consider building your own, like this person did. This DIY car air conditioner is a wall unit inserted in the back window of an automobile and it is powered by a gas generator. With this many wrongs, it’s just so right.
Interesting tactic, people were driving too fast in a neighborhood, so the neighborhood built “roadwitches” – “These type of “DIY traffic-calming happenings” are described by their creator as “roadwitches” and have included an 11-feet high rabbit, a big bed (for a sleeping policeman), a Casualty-style fake crash scene for Halloween and the setting up of a living room in the middle of the road.”