The Quadski looks like a blast, this is the ultimate toy! “Quadski is the third demonstration of Gibbs’ HSA technology following the successes of the Aquada and the Humdinga. It is capable of travelling up to 50 mph (72 kph) on land and water and makes the transition at the flick of a switch. Commenting on the launch of the Quadski prototype, Alan Gibbs, the founder of UK based
Ok so you thought that power tool races was the only fun you could have with power tools. Check out what I Make Projects did with some electronics and two cordless screwdrivers. “This is a radio-controlled vehicle made from two cheap, cordless power tools with wheels attached. The electrical control part consists only of an old R/C controller, two servos, and 4 microswitches. Since I had most parts already
I was over at a friends house the other day and spotted his lifted lawnmower. Bill Alexander was tired of hitting rocks when cutting grass around his trees with a normal push mower. Even when most of the rocks were picked up new ones arrived and damaged the blade often enough that a mower deck lift was called for. A trip to the hardware store and an evening of work
Looks like something that could traumatize kids for life… “The Muu Socia 3.0 robot, created by ATR and Systec Akazawa, is being shown at the International Modern Hospital Show 2006 in Tokyo this week. The CYBER CYCLOPS is designed, ugly enough, to serve as an ice-breaker between doctors and patients (in other words, they created it “because they could” and came up with an application later…). The robot interacts
Ok these Hydro Flyers look like too much fun, but at $250 I am not sure how much crazy flying I would do with it. “It is a boat, a car, an airplane, is not to hydroflyer. If you are a lover of the radius safe control that you are not going to leave running for llevarte one these. You can find online from 250 dollars in EliteHobby, also
You know a mod is cool when it requires duct tape. 🙂 “So, right, an iBook, even the older ones, are fine notebooks. Mine is a modest dual-USB one with 600MHz G3 and 384MB. Of course, I’d rather have a quicker model, but still, for roadtrips and websurfing it’s alright. Really it is. It runs Tiger quite smooth, which was a big surprise to me actually. There’s been only one
Go ahead and come into the garage, that humming noise is just my bench grinder… I would love to have this Tesla coil. One of these days I will sit down and put one together. I can only hope it will be half as nice as this one from WardLabs. “After this series of failures, I decided it was time for a bit more investigation. After much research, I
