Joe sent over this awesome water chopper! Years of puttering around the workshop finally have paid off for a local inventor, who was featured in the July edition of Popular Mechanic. Jim Garlitz, who operates a pizza shop in this small unincorporated town in the western Maryland mountains, was featured for a watercraft he assembled […]
FrankG writes in with a new electric utility vehicle project – This project is the conversion of a 1960’s Pargo Bar-Car to an electric Bush-Buggy. As usual action shots, cutting, grinding and welding as the body is removed some electrical work is done and the beast is transformed. Electric utility vehicle – Link.
Donn writes in – This page shows you how to hack a cheap car stereo with the PT2313L audio processor integrated circuit to be able to accept an auxiliary input, say from an MP3 player. The need for such a hack grew out of my frustration with connecting portable music players to my cheap car […]
Here’s a HUGE gallery of TINY cars (some of them are from the big auto makers, others seem home grown)… – [via] Link. And, don’t forget MAKE 11 includes a special “DIY Wheels” section, with plans for making a mobile drive-in movie theater, a cool chopper out of an old bicycle, and a pedal powered […]
There’s a new DIY self balancing transpo in town… a student-made DIY Segway… project details and more here – Link.
This looks like a lot of fun… Thanks Terrie! Link.
It’s hot out, it’s time for makers making things cool, in interesting ways… Scott Dawson, a civil engineering graduate from the University of Houston, decided after three years of driving around Houston without air conditioning in his car was long enough. So instead of spending $1,200 to fix the air conditioning on a car he […]
