Category Archives: Mechanical

Building Bamboo Bicycles and Road Bikes

Posted on February 21, 2012 by admin

I recently stumbled upon Bamboo Bicycles. I’ve spent a couple of days investigating this on and off now. There seem to be two major vendors at the moment, both related to the same man. Calfee Design appears to make Bamboo … Continue reading →

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The Pizza Box PC Case

Posted on March 3, 2011 by admin

My buddy sent me this link yesterday. ASUS demonstrated an example of shipping a motherboard in a box that could serve as a case. It’s pretty clever. As has been demonstrated many times before, nothing under the sun is new. … Continue reading →

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Building a Balsa Violin, pt 2; a.k.a. The Ballad of the Vaporized Wire

Posted on January 15, 2011 by admin

The first step to building a violin out of balsa wood and foam is cutting the basic shape out using a hot wire foam cutter. A quick google search shows that a) they’re easy to build and perhaps more importantly … Continue reading →

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Kazookeylele and more

Posted on January 12, 2011 by admin

All a cigar box guitar is, at heart really, is a ukulele with guts. My coworkers and I have been cranking away at getting this catalog finished. A tradition of theirs when uploading to the printer is to play “The final countdown”. … Continue reading →

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Relational Databases and Vector Graphics

Posted on November 25, 2010 by admin

At work I’ve had some contact with working with Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and then I got thrown on to another project using AutoCAD 2011. I thought it would be neat to combine the two, and brush up on my … Continue reading →

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Computational Manufacturing

Posted on October 13, 2010 by admin

This is by far and away the coolest piece of technology I’ve seen all year. And it’s applicable to real world solutions. Doubly so, since I seem to be working more with manufacturing these days. Apparently, from what I can … Continue reading →

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Another Proflex Elastomer/Elastometer fix

Posted on August 31, 2010 by admin

David E posted a comment about another fix he’d found for a replacement on his Proflex Elastomer, in the comments section of my other post on fixing your Proflex elastomer shock. He said he’d used the rubber portion of a 1 … Continue reading →

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Espresso Book Machine

Posted on August 17, 2010 by admin

I’d just come up to Vermont from Texas for a distant cousin’s wedding in Burlington. After unknowingly driving halfway across the (tiny) state in search of the Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream factory, we decided to drive to New Hampshire … Continue reading →

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Building a Balsa Violin, pt 1

Posted on February 8, 2010 by admin

Really this could have been included in the last post, but it was getting long and I wanted pictures of my own work above the cut.(edit: here is part 2, a year later.) So here are the first progress shots … Continue reading →

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Customize your car

Posted on September 8, 2009 by admin

Saw this through Livejournal. Livejournal has kind of lost it’s usefulness over time, but the communities are what makes it worth continuing to visit. In addition to the DFW communities, there’s some really good random image groups. I came across … Continue reading →

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