Andrew Kilpatrick who is a member of the Toronto Hacklab wrote a good built log of the Resurrection of a Universal Laser Systems Laser Engraving Machine. No it wasn’t simply cleaning out the dust and replacing a few blown components. As it turns out the existing electrical control system was not repairable so a new electrical system had to be built from scratch. Building the control circuits that were
This Russian V8 Sidecar Motorcycle looks amazing. There is no gas miser engine here, the big beefy V8 engine is sure to provide all the power you can handle and then some! I have seen some huge bikes before and always thought how hard it would be to handle the thing even with the slightest lean. The sidecar solves this problem very well and provides a convenient place to
I had mentioned in a few posts along the way that I would be getting a CNC machine shortly. Well as you can see it’s here and working. 🙂 The CNC machine that I purchased is the Fireball V90 CNC machine. If you are a Nuts and Volts reader, this was the one that they featured a few months ago (PDF). In the coming weeks there will be some
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!
