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Spray Painting with a Skateboard

Spray Painting with a Skateboard

Considering how upset he was by a relatively tiny bloodstain, that guy from Gleaming The Cube is gonna be livid when he sees what these young punks have done to his pool. Appears to be, at least in part. the work of London based street artist D*face.

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Tony Hawk’s V8 Skateboard packs 630 horsepower

Tony Hawk’s V8 Skateboard packs 630 horsepower

Why not strap a monster crate motor onto a custom skateboard frame? If you did, would it be the fastest? That’s debatable. I say that the engine would tear the frame up and throw the rider before it could gain significant speed. Some would say that you don’t even need an engine to go fast on a skateboard. That didn’t stop the folks at V8 Supercars from Sydney, Australia from building their monster 630hp V8 Skateboard.

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SkateboardPOV

SkateboardPOV

Marcus Nowotny (Hamburg, Germany) created an awesome skateboard POV using a MiniPOV attached to the underside of his board: The schematic is drastically reduced to the original version, the LEDs have been reduced to white 0603 LEDs and laid out in a very small PCB, small enough to not touch the ground or come anywhere […]

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Skatekeyboard

Skatekeyboard

Tobi Leingruber, artist and Firefox hax0r, made this skatekeyboard (art piece) that’s full of cognitive dissonance and neon, two of my favorite things.

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“Cause I’m a Rocket Fan…”

“Cause I’m a Rocket Fan…”

Ryan Bavetta, of Crazy Builders, bolted a 3.7 HP model airplane engine onto the back of a skateboard to create this rocket board. Propeller Powered Skateboard [via PopSci]

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Treehouse Designs Skate Deck Chair

The beautiful thing about Maker Faire is that you often get a sneak peek into designs folks have in the works but that are not available yet. One of my favorite prototypes I saw was the Treehouse Designs Skate Deck Chair. From their site, the chair is a “prototype for a furniture line in kit […]

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Treehouse Designs Skate Deck Chair

The beautiful thing about Maker Faire is that you often get a sneak peek into designs folks have in the works but that are not available yet. One of my favorite prototypes I saw was the Treehouse Designs Skate Deck Chair. From their site, the chair is a “prototype for a furniture line in kit […]

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