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Category Archives: Mechanical
Bicycles and Cats, and why bicycles self-steer themselves (and cats always land on their feet)
I’m curious, how does stem length impact steering feel? I realize that steering feel is almost 100% impacted by trail (how far the contact patch is behind the line of the head tube) but for example, on my project bike, … Continue reading
Posted in bicycles, Mechanical
Tagged bicycle, bikes, cat, cats, head tube angle, physics, road bike, self-steer, trail, wheel trail
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Intel’s Galileo Ardunio and Powershell
Intel’s Galileo is a pretty neat piece of kit. However it won’t always connect on the same COM port (typically COM3 or COM4). The only way the tutorials tell you to check this is via a menu deep inside the … Continue reading
Posted in computing, linux, Mechanical
Tagged arduino, beaglebone black, intel galileo
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Red Green Show now on YouTube (Legally) in all it’s glory
Friend of mine sent me this: I listed out all the play lists for my dad for the red green show because youtube’s ui on the playlists is kinda funky, here it is, every episode by season play list. 91 … Continue reading
DIY Bicycle Pannier – for $12 or less
Short how to on making your own pannier bags for a bicycle rack using hardware store parts and a bag. Continue reading
Posted in bicycles, Mechanical
Tagged bicycle bags, bicycle rack, bicycles, do it yourself, make your own bicycle pannier bags, maker, pannier
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Building Bamboo Bicycles and Road Bikes
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
Posted in Arts, bicycles, Mechanical
Tagged bamboo, bamboo bicycle, bicycle, bike, carbom fiber, cyclocross, fixie, green, green manufacturing, road bike, sustainable
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The Pizza Box PC Case
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
Posted in computing, linux, Mechanical
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Building a Balsa Violin, pt 2; a.k.a. The Ballad of the Vaporized Wire
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
Posted in Mechanical, music
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Kazookeylele and more
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
Posted in Guitar, Mechanical, music
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Relational Databases and Vector Graphics
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
Posted in computing, Games, linux, Mechanical
Tagged autocad, cad, database format, sql, svg, system R, vector graphics
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Computational Manufacturing
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
Posted in computing, Mechanical
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