Tuesday, May 30, 2006

English Police Take Spud Gun Threat Seriously

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Swoop on spud gun boy ARMED police swooped on a residential street to arrest a boy with a spud gun. Police were called to Win...

New Blog for lovers of Fire Art: Flame Effects Blog

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My friend Mikey Sklar has recently started a blog on the topic of fire art. He wrote me that, "It had bothered me to no end that there ...
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Thursday, May 18, 2006

It's a busy summer

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Notice the posts at this blog have been kinda slim lately? The weather is getting nicer and nicer and I'd like to spend more time out of...
Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Summer Flinging Season begins

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Summer approaches and that means it's hurling season in the UK. Last year I saw Peter Vemming Hansen's trebuchet at Denmark's M...
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Monday, May 08, 2006

Penetrating Cone Fracture explosives saves Australian miners

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It was great to see the pictures of those Tasmainian miners walk out of the mine. The diagram comes from the BBC and shows how the rescue t...

Beer Ad with Terrific Trebuchet

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Here's an Australian beer ad that is well worth watching . The highlight is the great catapult (it's a trebuchet actually) action a...
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006

It Blows Up Real Good. Yup, Real Good

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Remember the Farm Report skit on Second City TV? That's where Joe Flaherty and John Candy begin a report on agriculture and end up blowi...

Happy Astronomy Day

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Many years ago, I built a six inch reflecting telescope with my father. We ground the mirror, collimated the parts, built the mount and so f...
Monday, May 01, 2006

Big Paper Airplane Event this week

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One of the most popular and best attended lectures I've gone to recently involved a paper airplane folding demonstration. Hundreds of pe...
Friday, April 28, 2006

Robo-Suits

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I saw my friend Brad Stone who is the Silicon Valley correspondant for Newsweek at last week's Maker Faire. He recently wrote a Wired Ma...
Thursday, April 27, 2006

Way to go, Al

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I wrote in an earlier post about the high number of out-of-box failures I had experienced with my purchase of 6 Dippy Birds from Edmund Scie...
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

JCB Dieselmax

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A new, fast Diesel powered car is taking on Utah's Bonneville salt flats in a new speed record attempt. According to the new and wicked-...
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

The X-15, its test pilot, and fast planes

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According to CBS news , Scott Crossfield, the first man to fly at twice the speed of sound, routinely climbed into some of the most powerful...
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Monday, April 24, 2006

Back from Maker's Faire in San Mateo

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I took the 12:40 AM redeye flight from San Francisco to Minneapolis last night, back from the Maker's Faire in San Mateo. I'm still ...
Thursday, April 20, 2006

Off to Maker's Faire

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I'm headed for the San Francisco Bay area tonight to attend Make Magazine's Maker Faire . I am very excited about this, as it has th...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Worlds First Homebuilt Jet Aircraft?

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According to a newspaper in Queensland , Australia, "John Gross has flown into the history books in his homemade jet plane. After seven...
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Monday, April 17, 2006

New Entrants in the Robotic Fish Race

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These are boom times for those interested in robotic fish. Scientists from around the globe appear to be on the verge of making robotic fish...
Saturday, April 15, 2006

Dippy Bird Power

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I bought six Dippy Birds from Edmund Scientific for an assignment I'm working on. I can only get three of them to work. That's a 50 ...
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Friday, April 14, 2006

Ball Bearings as an Art Form

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I live in Minneapolis, MN which apart from the cold winters is a pretty good place to live. (I think something like 99.5% of the worlds inha...
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Thursday, April 13, 2006

Rube Goldberg Machines around the world (ピタゴラ装置)

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As you raise spoon of soup (A) to your mouth it pulls string (B), thereby jerking ladle (C) which throws cracker (D) past parrot (E). Parro...
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