I stumbled on this old Infotek Ad today. It really puts the prices of computers and computer power today in perspective. I wonder how hard it was to sell one of their Word Processing packages which even after the $2,100 discount was $10,850? If that price isn’t bad enough we have to remember that a dollar in 1977 bought you significantly more than it does today! I sure hope
Thanks to EASEUS for providing their EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition as the prize this week. Partition Master Professional allows you to perform complex partition management with ease. This contest will run for one week (April 18 – 23, 2009) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. Please do not
I can’t believe that it has been over 3 and a half years since I made the first hard drive clock. Since then there have been lots of cool clocks created by some talented people. Jason Amsel and Konstantin Klitenikfrom from Cornell University came up with this hard drive clock version (2nd on page), they added a nice touch screen that can be used to set the time. Ian
I have seen lots of full size Competition Pull Tractors with multiple motors but I have never seen a RC truck with more than one motor. The RC result by Andy Tymowicz is one cool truck that has power to spare!
If you want this Wood Ferrari V12 Engine masterpiece you better work fast since this Ebay auction is coming to an end in about 4 days. The 400 hours of build time sure show, hopefully when it is sold the creator can purchase a new keyboard since it is obvious that his current one has a stuck caps key. "FERARI V12 365GTB/4 WOODEN DAYTONA MOTOR ,FULL SIZE , MADE
What can you do with LEGO, Lasers and Rubber Bands? Well glad you asked. This Remote Controlled Lego Turret could be constructed to guard any teenagers room, heck I could use it to keep people out of my office. 🙂 "Specifications: Fully remote controlled It uses only one engine Ammo: The regular rubber band 30 rubber bands Engine: 8287 Lego Motor"
The Suzuk-E Electric Bike build continues. The last time they did some cool Gear Casting using CNC and Foam. This time they added some active cooling to the electric motor and used a CNC machine to make some stencils, constructed a custom LED Dimmer Circuit and lots of other fun projects. “Over the course of several road and trail runs the motor temps were topping 100F as measured in the
