The Sublime Pleasures of the “Makecation”
Your humble author travels to his dining room table to indulge in his tabletop gaming obsession for ten days.
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MAKEcation: Powered bikes!
I found these two bikes in the MAKE Flickr pool: The top photo shows a folding bike with an “electric push trailer” — a $75 e-bike conversion kit turned into an electrically-powered trailer. Neat idea! The bottom photo shows a standard mountain bike that some maniac has hacked to run via gas engine. What have […]
MAKEcation: JB interviews John Graham-Cumming, author of Geek Atlas
Have you ever wanted to tour Bletchley Park, the headquarters of Britain’s WWII codebreaking efforts? How about the Gutenberg Museum, dedicated to the invention of movable type? The Geek Atlas by John Graham-Cumming collects 128 of those “dream destinations” every one an important aspect of our geek heritage. In the National Air and Space Museum […]
How to build a catapult part 3 – Hollywood inspirations
Has anyone else noticed a lot of movies with trebuchets and other catapults in them? I sure have. For instance, they were the special-effects stars in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, particularly, the Return of the King. They’ve been on TV as well: Fox Sports, the Simpsons, Northern Exposure, PBS Nova, Warner Brother’s cartoons and probably many others.
