tingilinde

fun in new mexico

sled + car -> stuff

a lego turing machine

Stuff you might need ...

Thanks for the link Bjarne!

The Danish students who built it have a blog with a detailed discussion. 

a reasonable power to weight ratio

A turbine power R/C aircraft and the real thing

I have a fondness for MiG-29s ...  when we paid off our mortgage Leo Laudenslager put it in the center of a ribbon that he cut after pulling out of an inverted spin after executing a lomcevak in his Laser 200.  A visiting Russian MiG-29 pilot ran out onto the tarmac and rescued the mortgage, which is now hanging in our dining room.



and the real thing

hacking with sugru

Potentially brilliant stuff.  Watch the video.  thanks for the link Greg!

silly putty++

serious about wood

Among other (many) other things. Matthias Wandel built a neat little pipe organ.   Lots of stuff on his pages.  Anyone with an interesting in wood and building stuff will want to take a look at his main page, a project page and a neat little game.

thanks for the link Greg!

a polymath

See if you can stop after reading the first paragraph of this obit.

Dollars to doughnuts, Robert H. Rines will be mainly remembered not for holding more than 800 patents, starting a law school or writing music for the stage, but for his dogged pursuit of the Loch Ness monster.

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every home needs one

Greg points out a nifty can crusher

coney island from the air

It looks like the amusement park at Coney Island is being torn down for development - so sad.  It had a certain tackiness to it that is a major feature of the place.  Last July Sukie, Colleen and I were able to spend some time there and rode the fabled wonder wheel.

Alan found a company that does commercial video uses a R/C helicopter as a camera mount.  They shot a nice Coney Island sequence.

very desirable tool

Greg points out the Jointmaker Pro by Bridge City Tool Works. Not inexpensive, but it looks great!

here is a review 

go out and crash something

but do it for less than a hundred bucks - advice from Dan Shapiro