Cameras spin on bicycle wheel to film lightning streak, Popular Mechanics – 1936 – Link. Inventor hides secret of “Death Ray” – “Pigeons on the wing instantly killed by death rays from a machine four miles away–that is the feat reputedly accomplished by a deadly apparatus developed by Dr. Antonio Longoria, of Cleveland, Ohio, who […]
Jake (re)made an incredible steam punk – victorian era monitor mod, he writes… The Steampunk Keyboard looked terribly anachronistic sitting in front of my Dell 1907FP flat panel monitor and while I hesitated to tear open a $300 monitor that was still under warantee, art must be served. Steampunk Flat-Panel LCD Mod – Link. Related: […]
Tim Anderson, here’s one for you… Link.
Woz on eWeek with a nice nod to MAKE on the Apple II’s 30th Bday! (Pictured here Woz @ Maker Faire! photo by sidstamm)… Woz said that one of the problems with commercial software is that it’s overloaded. “It can be good or bad,” he said, and the user has no say. “If you use […]
Old is the new new… Mechanix Illustrated 1951, Bike power! Bike Power Unit will convert any bicycle into an honest-to-goodness motor bike in 15 minutes. It attaches to the front wheel as shown. Its single-cylinder, three-horsepower air-cooled engine provides 100 miles to a gallon. Fuel tank is at top. American Brake Shoe, Rochester, N. Y. […]
If you’re in to old bikes check out the Japanese Bicycle History Research Club & the intro essay History of the ordinary in Japan by Yukio Ootsu – Documented information on high wheel bicycles in Japan is extremely scarce. It is quite incomplete and seems quite impossible to prove when the first ordinary appeared in […]
Jeff writes – You had covered the last “SteamPunk” Guitar I had built back in April called the “Villanizer” [Here’s] our latest build called the “Nautilus”, another more extensive SteamPunk Guitar. The Nautilus was inspired by the film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but certainly doesn’t aspire to look like a submarine. Starting life as […]
