Month: November 2007

Fuel-cell flier

Fuel-cell flier

A fuel cell-powered remotely piloted aircraft buzzed quietly into the morning sky in a park near Van Nuys, Calif., August 25. The unorthodox flight was a triumph of collegiate innovation made possible by a nurturing program at California State University Los Angeles and a boost from NASA’s Academic Investments Office and the Air Force Office […]

Alpha (spoke) POV

Alpha (spoke) POV

Tristan Roddis of blog.cogapp.com writes: Following the great instructions from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, I built one, and then reprogrammed the chip to create a crude persistence of vision device, which could then be velcroed onto my spokes for use as a propaganda tool during the Critical Mass bike ride. Hardware hacking – the next […]