Bicycle made from a bed
From Popular Science 1938 – a fantastic bicycle made from a bed frame! Link.
Retro
HOW TO – Make a Telegraph that clacks out RSS Feeds
Jake sent in how to make a replica telegraph sounder that taps out rss feeds in morse code, outstanding work! – Link.
One wheeled homemade tractor
One wheeled homemade tractor from Popular Science 1933 – With a power plant that is suspended securely inside of a big ring-shaped wheel, a garden tractor has been built largely from odds and ends by R. D. Read of Akron, Ohio. It operates like the unicycle automobile developed in England. (P.S.M. May, ’32, p. 63.) […]
Monoggle
CRAFT Flickr photo pool member B_Zedan made a really nice monoggle from junk laying around… Fashioned from some scraps I had around the house, the goggle cup is papier mache the front of the goggle is an aperture from a tele-zoom lens. All the detail junk (except for the wire) are from various cameras and […]
1983 – RB5x – Intelligent robot (eBay)
Goodness, this looks great, it’s on eBay good luck if you want grab it, if anyone does let us know! We offer a rare RB5X, The Intelligent RobotTM by RB Robot Corp. of Golden, CO. Serial No. 0010140 (#140). This early example comes with its battery recharging nest, Reference Manual dated 4/6/83, specifications and sales […]
Viktor’s amazing 4-bit processor
Viktor writes – I’ve been a software guy all my life. However, I was always fascinated by electronics, and part of my success as a programmer was due to my thorough understanding of how computers work. Back in 1999, I put that understanding to the ultimate test: I actually designed, and built, a simple but […]
100-year-old photo blog
This photo blog has an amazing view in to what it was like 100 years ago, a lot of the backgrounds have the machinery and what people (in these photos, children) made back then… Shorpy.com is a photo blog about what life a hundred years ago was like: How people looked and what they did […]
