Whoa. A miniature V12 engine for BIG R/C vehicles. The home-made motor is a valve-operated 12 cylinder 4 stroke engine with two low operated camshafts with oil lubrication and air cooling. The builder is hoping to eventually offer the engine as a kit. V12 RC-Engine [Via Hacked Gadgets]
Wow, upsilandre made a computer in the PS3’s LittleBigPlanet beta. It’s a mechanical calculator that can do addition and subtraction: 610 magnetic switches, 500 wires, 430 pistons, 70 emitters… Here’s a video!
From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I’ll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! John Lien describes his banana device as: The banana-rator is a “refrigerator” for bananas. Instead of removing heat, it removes the ethylene gas given off by […]
From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I’ll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! I’m excited to let you all know about a very hairy device debut occurring at Maker Faire Austin: the Hair and Balanced TV Filter Kit. In […]
Austin Dorkbot friends at Bleep labs are having a soiree Saturday: And, check out Bleep Labs’ Thingamagoop / Thingamakit here.
By way of our resident coffee gadget guru John Edgar Park comes word of this… er… homebrewed temp-regulated, lever espresso machine, called the Robo-Pavoni. Robo-Pavoni ; learning to make an espresso machine from scratch
Meet the Peek — $100 and $20/month for service, not exactly at the cheap threshold for it to be a fun device to pick up for hacking – but it will be interesting to see if folks want an always on email only device. If it’s hackable (all things are usually) it could be used […]
