Category Archives: Mechanical

Intel’s Galileo Ardunio and Powershell

Posted on February 2, 2014 by admin

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 →

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Red Green Show now on YouTube (Legally) in all it’s glory

Posted on November 21, 2013 by admin

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 →

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DIY Bicycle Pannier – for $12 or less

Posted on September 9, 2013 by admin

Short how to on making your own pannier bags for a bicycle rack using hardware store parts and a bag. Continue reading →

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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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