FiveseveN writes – “Since spudguns are so popular these days, I thought my little contraption would make a nice addition to the topic. It’s what we in the starch launching community call an advanced combustion cannon. Quite advanced. The URL points to the AMC’s thread on the main spud gunners’ forum, Spudfiles. There’s lots of […]
Joseph Hall has done it again with his tech cooking skillz. Now you can not only have the recipies for making yummy sugar cookies but sugar cookies that serve “the best Linux distribution”, Ubuntu. Link.
Yahoo is wrapping up their time capsule project and then archiving it all with the Smithsonian. Time Capsule Camp was a gathering of media makers and some cool workshops that I got to attend yesterday. While there, I tried sending up my kite aerial photography rig, but there wasn’t enough wind to get the rig […]
Chris writes – “It will soon start raining here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I recently installed some [recycled] barrels to collect rain water for my gardening needs. Each barrel can hold 55 gallons of rain water. The rain water comes from one downspout, itself linked to a gutter that covers a 300 square […]
We love Photojojo and they’ve made a cool project that turns your photo into mailable postcards. [ via ] Link.
Back in the day dogs earned their keep, really… Here’s a great article (and drawings) of horse, sheep and dog powered contraptions… [via] – Link. More: Dog Power – Link. Museum of Retro technology – Link. Dog powered transportation: Dog Powered Scooter – Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Aminorjourney posted up this pretty intense e-bike, it’s Pete Green’s “Franken -bike”, a Dawes Galaxy with a 350W motor – Link. Related: Eric Peltzer’s Electric Bicycle – Link. Schwinn 2007 electric bikes – Link. Electric Bicycle – Battery upgrade – Link. DIY Electric bicycle – Link. Bicycles Archives – Link.
