John Deere motorcycle lawn mower
Here’s a collection of some interesting vehicles, the mowercycle is rad – [via] – Link.
Made On Earth
Cardboard box baby stroller
Here’s a cardboard TV box baby buggy – Thanks Mark! [via] – Link. Related: Other baby related projects and mods ;-] Link.
Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race (photos)
Sean writes – “Engineers plant tongues firmly into cheeks making human powered vehicles that traverse land, sea, and mud. Intrepid reporter (and frequent sufferer of name collisions) Tom Jones documented the event well with vivid photographs and linked videos. And the famous “Fifi” rides again!” – Link.
Homebrew radio gallery
Jeff has an amazing gallery of homemade, modded radios & power supplies – Link.
Falcon cam
Minnesota Power and the Boswell Energy Center installed a platform and live camera so you can view the Falcons that live there, doing Falcon things – ” For the last 13 years, a pair of migrating Peregrine falcons has been returning to a nesting platform 220 feet up on a 350-foot stack at Minnesota Power’s […]
27th annual Kinetics Sculpture challenge
Erin writes – “This weekend, during the fabulous power tool races, was the incredible annual Kinetics Sculpture Challenge in Boulder, CO. These hand-made, human-powered crafts have to face an incredibly difficult over land-and-water-and-combinations-thereof course, which the fastest team completed in hour-and-a-half. Three-and-a-half hours later the last team to make it under the deadline drug their […]
Ornithopter – The Electric Bat
Graham writes – “The project began after considering building a really small machine much like Matt Keennon’s Microbat and deciding a better bet might be to use an existing rubber design as a basis for a larger model to start with. It seems great minds think a like as you will see in this thread […]
