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
Dan Swearingen | June 23, 2009
Oh my. This looks dangerous (and fun). A skateboard powered by a 3.7 HP model airplane engine.
Propeller Powered Skateboard – Test Day! from Crazy Builders on Vimeo. Another cool project found at the MAKE blog.
Dan Swearingen | June 19, 2009
I knew someone that had a yurt in their back yard where they would go to be “away” from things — telephones, computers, TV, family, etc.
I thought this was just a little weird. Maybe it’s just that it is so… overt. After all, I know I need some alone time each week or I get [...]
Dan Swearingen | June 19, 2009
As you upgrade to digital and HD in your house those old TV sets can make cool projects.
We are down to one 13-inch “old” (non-digital) TV set in the house. I also have a Samsung 17-inch LCD monitor that is an old-style analog tuner.
As Usual, MAKE Magazine has bunches of projects:
Ask MAKE: surplus TVs from [...]
Dan Swearingen | June 17, 2009
Found at MAKE blog: Baron Margo makes all kinds of whimsical metal objects of art.
see more at BaronMargo.com
Dan Swearingen | June 10, 2009
An interesting project would be a series of modified USB flash drives like this one made into a Steampunk artifact but there are lots of other things you could make.
I found this at ETSY: 16GB Mechanical Memory Key
Dan Swearingen | June 9, 2009
A nice, quick project would be a dedicated streaming video PC designed to be a living room internet-connected DVR hooked up to your TV capable of playing DVD and Blu-Ray disks, other digital formats off of removable disks or hard drives, and streaming internet sources like Hulu, Netflix, and YouTube.
Maximum PC has a great how-to [...]
Dan Swearingen | June 9, 2009
This is from MAKE magazine and we need one of these for our film class.
Found at the MAKE blog: Weekend Project: $14 Video Camera Stabilizer
Parts list is here.
