Bhunter736 writes – This is my project to make a semi compact wind turbine that can handle turbulant wind and generate enough power to charge deep cycle batteries. I will cover the rotor construction in the instructable. You will need to download my PDF for the whole project. Build a Savonius Wind Turbine or VAWT […]
This is pretty neat, the prototype was made with a 3D printer too– Neochroma is a mobile phone attachment that puts a big screen into the palm of your hand. The installed base of camera phones has reached 850 million in 2006. 1.5 billion are predicted for 2010 (source: Lyra Research). While billions of shots […]
Via the Hacks Authors’ Blogs feed, we find Jim Bumgardner’s Pipes Picayune & Daily Tube mashup news ticker: Headlines from a BBC RSS feed are fed, via Y! Pipes, to my news ticker, which is implemented in Flash. Click on the spinning newspaper to read the story in full on the original website. This widget […]
Writing wonks and anal editors rejoice! Gina Trapani just released her Ly Detector as a Greasemonkey script! If you’re at all familiar with Strunk and White, you know that excessive use of adverbs – words that end in -ly – isn’t a sign of strong writing. All of us writers struggle with sentence-weakening generally’s and […]
Over at Parent Hacks, Asha Dornfest points to Listpic, a “visual Craigslist browser” that lets you search your city’s Craigslist listings by keyword or category and display the results as image thumbnails. Price and location are included with the photo, mousing over reveals some details on the item, and clicking the image opens a pop-up […]
Popular Science 1939 – Walking on rollers that are geared to the rear wheels of a novel treadmill wagon, a child can propel the odd vehicle along the ground. Invented by Harry Kister, of Philadelphia, Pa., the cart is fitted with removable floor boards that cover the rollers, so that it may be used as […]
Google Maps has added traffic information for more than 30 U.S. cities. If available in your area, real-time traffic conditions will be displayed over the highway as color coded lines. Each color represents how fast the traffic is moving: Green: more than 50 miles per hour Yellow: 25 – 50 miles per hour Red: less […]
