video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07PBSjExN2Y
Cool, we are looking forward to Maker Faire for cool steam tanks like this!
So what do you do after you’ve made a bunch of steam powered r/c tanks? Well you try making a steam turbine tank of course! Making a steam turbine r/c machine has sort of been one of my Holy Grails, but there are many issues with steam turbines, that made it difficult for me to tackle on the project.
Check out this cool supercharged airplane you can make in your free time!
The single-sheet paper airplanes you made when you were a kid (or perhaps last week in your cubicle) were, well, kid stuff compared to this beefed-up paper craft, which uses an electric motor from an old pager or toy powered by a big electrolytic capacitor. Known as a “Gold Cap” and made by Panasonic, the capacitor charges from a battery pack and then met
Erin joins our new Blog network site, Keetsa! Blog, which is a new blog about eco-friendly and green. Well, here’s a cool post she wrote about the sustainable skyscrapers, similar to previous post on the Rotating Towers to be built in Dubai. On the side note, can you believe it? I went from hacking gadgets
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJRDZE5xW2Y
Wow, check out these rotating towers that can power itself!
While the technical details of the wind-power system are sketchy at best, the architect, David Fisher, claims that the tower could power itself and ten other similar sized buildings. Frankly, the claim seems somewhat outlandish, but even if it produces just it’s own energy, it would be a significant achiev
video://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3637639460474263178&q=site%3Akeetsa&hl=en
Here’s one of the first video games made, the Pong from Atari. Check out how interesting the company came to be. Absolutely crazy people who made it to the market big, we applaud them for their courage!
Atari rules! Pong rules!
Cool, ThinkGeek’s got their magic numbers going too! Very clever.
Hmm…. I wonder what comes after bf…c0???
Tight, with a 16GB SanDisk memory, you should be able to take a lot of pictures…
Check out the features:
Designed to meet the critical speed and performance needs of serious professional photographers, lets you quickly capture, view, Upload and transfer large image files Ideal for demanding photo shoots under severe weather conditions, heat, cold, wind, rain, snow, etc. Built to perform in the most extreme environments and temperatures 20MB pe
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnuChpEHrGc
Wow, check out some of these really cool DIY Thumb Pianos!
Sometimes an instrument you know can become something else altogether. Bob Collier has been constructing his own thumb pianos, adding amplification, effects, self-sampling features, and novel cases involving recycled camera bodies and faux fur. As Bob says, “Sometimes the crudest and roughest looking kalimbas can sound surprisingly good especially with the right context of fx and amplification.”
I find kalimbas beautiful and delicate to begin with.
After work, instead of taking the usual elevator, stairs, or escalator, you can simply slide down the Funny Escalator and save some time too. If we ever get a chance to build our own building, this would definitely be one of the features. But you’d probably need to pay a lot of money for insuring it.
Here’s a cool USB disk drive hack that shows you how to bypass the password retries with 1 wire and tips to getting started with cracking the actual password. This shows how vulnerable those USB disk drives are in the hands of smart hackers.
The package seems to be made of black velvet, and there’s a nice keychain hidden in a compartment of the package which you can use to hang the stick around your neck. I’m not so fond of metal on my body, considering I work with electricity a lot,
