Dan Swearingen | January 1, 2010
A CycleKart is a small four wheeled car made to look like one of the classic racing sports cars of the 1920’s or 1930’s.
Power is specified as a 200 cc Honda one-cylider engine. Wheels are based on 17″ x 2″ motorcycle rims. Total car weight must be under 250 lbs.
I love the look and these [...]
Dan Swearingen | November 16, 2009
Lots of trial and error learning goes on in our workshops. Sometimes the emphasis is on “error.”
One of our students from an early workshop, Reggie, wanted to make a globe. We said “sure.” Our strategy was to build it out of layers of pine — and that was REALLY hard.
We all took turns rasping and [...]
Dan Swearingen | November 13, 2009
I tripped across this beautiful diorama project posted and built by Maxime Pécourt who lives in Paris, France.
What a fun idea.
Dan Swearingen | November 7, 2009
This is a beautifully done video made by filming art miniatures with the band masked in. Love the killer teddy bears. The song is okay too.
Dan Swearingen | November 6, 2009
Wow, are there some serious nerds out there! They make me happy.
Diana Eng over at Make presents an awesome project taking a toy Star Trek original series communicator and making it into a bluetooth headset for your cell phone.
I actually own one of these toy communicators and this would be a great project to encourage [...]
Dan Swearingen | August 24, 2009
It’s also a great tribute to 8-bit video games.
Sorry Steven, I think you’re pwned. Awesome. The comment says “1500 hours of moving legobricks and taking photos of them.”
Dan Swearingen | August 18, 2009
Dan Swearingen | August 9, 2009
Carissa mentioned that she was thinking of making some sort of rubber band gun next.
I found this great video at YouTube blogged about at Japanator.
Dan Swearingen | August 6, 2009
Dan Dos Santos is an artist of many modern pulp novel covers. Here is a great time-lapse sequence of him painting a book cover.
More of his work may be seen here (Russian language website).
Dan Swearingen | June 24, 2009
Puddle-Duck Racers (also PDRacers or just PDR) are a class of racing sailboat designed to be easy to build and sail.
Because they are required to be less than 8 feet in length and sail powered they do not require registration in California.
Official Site for the class
Puddle Duck Racer at Wikipedia
Free Boat Plans
