Month: March 2006

A real tree “house”

A real tree “house”

Adric writes –“December of 2005, my dad decided to build a treehouse, but not just a simple one, He used a laser level to figure out how big of a supported platform he could build and then he drew it up on paper, then laid it out on the ground using poles and stakes. Then […]

How LRAD works

How LRAD works

HowStuffWorks has a great article on how LRAD works –“In November of 2005, pirates attacked a cruise ship off the coast of Somalia. The pirates had machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. But the cruise ship had a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD), which was credited with driving the pirates away by firing a beam of […]

Industrial Archeology

Industrial Archeology

This is pretty interesting, using CAD to recreate machines that no longer exist – “Museums and history buffs have begun using CAD software for an exciting new application – breathing life into centuries past. “Industrial archeology” is the study and re-creation of machines, parts, vehicles, and buildings that may have vanished, been destroyed, gone obsolete, […]

The BBC did American Inventor 50 years ago

The BBC did American Inventor 50 years ago

ABC’s American Inventor, produced by American Idol’s Simon Cowell’s starts up in a couple weeks (Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 8/7c) – but, putting inventors on TV to showcase their inventions has some interesting history – check out this article from Popular Mechanics 1955 on Modern Mechanix – Thanks Charlie! Link. Related: American Inventor – […]