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Make magazine vol 08!

Posted on November 17, 2006 by max

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I just got my new make magazine volume 8, cool cover aey?

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ZikiWiki – Technology wiki for hackers, diyers, mcu users, plc users, etc…

Posted on November 2, 2006 by max

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ZikiWiki is a technology wiki I created for technology. Well, right now I am just posting some stuff for my work but hopefully, it will get bigger and bigger and become a free useful tool for diyers, hackers, engineers, and etc… Right now it’s in beta testing period, so if you need a place for your information organization, this might be a good place to start.

I thought about how restricted wikipedia was becoming, it’s like a free place that’s not free anymore, but here’s a wi

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DIY HOWTO – Solar powered Pumpkin

Posted on October 19, 2006 by max

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Cool Pumpkin that is solar powered and saves earth!

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DIY – Minimalist Solar-powered Robot

Posted on October 11, 2006 by max

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Check out this awesome solar-bot!

We are getting a lot of good ideas on what to do with this…hmmm….

any ideas appreciated on some ideas (please leave comments if you’ve got ideas for expanding this DIY)

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Venturi Astrolab: First Commercially-Available Solar Hybrid

Posted on October 2, 2006 by max

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Wow, check this car out, it can go 74mph! I like the solar panel designs…

From that forward-thinking French company Venturi, here’s Astrolab, the first commercially available solar electric hybrid car in the world. The company says it can go 74mph and has a range of 68 miles, probably long enough for most commutes. The entire top of the vehicle is equipped with photovoltaic cells�3.6 square meters of them�and they store tha

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Space Elevator Games – Elevator 2010 Competition

Posted on September 29, 2006 by max

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DC from SpaceElevator came by the other day at my work to pick up some XPORT and XPORT Dongles. Well, he told me about some cool sites that build space elevators! The competition will be held at the X-PRIZE Cup in Las Cruces, NM on October 20-21. Thanks DC for the info! 🙂

Elevator:2010 is designed to address the “social engineering” of the Space Elevator. Taking our cue from the X-prize, solar car rac

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Solar powered wheelchair

Posted on September 1, 2006 by max

Wow, this is more of what we need in Bob Triming of Australia modded his wheelchair to run on solar panels. The solar panels turns out provides Bob with dual benefits — the solar panels give him an extra 30 mins of power on sunny days, and also acts as an umbrella on rainy days.

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