Here’s a funny robot competition that robots try to pop each other balloons!

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Cool video on Larry Page, one of the founders of Google.

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We were going to make a fireworks DIY for New Years but didn’t really know how to set the
electrical ignition for it. Well, we just found one for rocket ignition that could work for our Chinese
New Years DIY.

Now we get to see some great closeups of my favorite alloy (aside from inconel that is): nichrome. Nichrome is great. It’s cheap, heats up nicely, and doesn’t oxidize very easily. Beat that, tungsten carbide. You had to resort to a nonmetal.

As I was saying, wrap the nichrome around all three fuses, and attatch your lead wires to it.

Coat the igniter in some more nitrocellulose laquer, and prime it with some more black powder. It is now ready to be launched.

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nice hoo*ers…

my next TV…

Cool…more beer robots…

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Check out Macworld and Apple Store this week in San Francisco! We might be there to exchange
some of our DIY projects for something at the Make Store if that works…hehe…anyways,
we will make sure to take some photos if we do go! Cool, they got some stuff about rss and
podcasting so we might have to go since we are thinking about Zedomax technology video podcasts,
which are on the way… yipee!

Cool, the Macworld show is at Moscone center, my friend Markus works there, he’s probably
setting it up right now!  My favorite place for shows since it’s not too far away.
Be sure to check Make out this week and tell them Zedomax guys told them to go!

Some folks from MAKE will be at Macworld & the Apple store this week, stop by and say hi –

Apple store - San Francisco: Mark Frauenfelder, Rule The Web
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 from 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Link & map.

MacWorld - O’Reilly - Booth S2112, Phillip Torrone, Podcasting
Thursday - January 11, 2007 - 5:00 pm
Link & More.

Apple store - San Francisco: Podcasting, Phillip Torrone, Podcasting
Friday - January 12, 2007 from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Link & map

My talks will be on using RSS 2.0 for making and sending out: Enhanced podcasts, videos, audio, sewing patterns, magazines, PDFs, 3D models and more - along with a peek of how we produce our content @ MAKE.

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It’s getting near Christmas time and I needed to prepare some Christmas gifts for my parents.
Since my Dad does not get much time on the golf course these days, I figured I could make
a training aid he could use at home to keep his swing on path.

Since I didn’t want to spend 50 bucks on the golf training aid, so I decided to make one real quick.

To see complete HOWTO, click HERE

To see more pics, click HERE

To see printable wiki version, click HERE

Also check out our other Christmas DIYs:

LED Christmas Tree

Voice Activated Christmas Controller

LED Christmas Wreath

Christmas Controller in 5 Minutes!

Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode

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