We can get the 3D printer guy to hang out with the 3D scanner fellow and we’ll be another step closer to replicators. Here’s a 3D laser scanner using a Quickcam Pro 4000 camera, s100 SMS controller card and LSG 35 geared motor
March 2007
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March 13, 2007
June 26, 2006: I’m mothballing the It’s been a great year and a half: over a millionvisitors and more than 5000 e-mailed suggestions.I have other projects and responsibilities now and I don’t have the time to devote to destroyingstuff and updating the site on a regular basis.I hope you (the public) have enjoyed the site as muchas I’ve enjoyed you enjoying it. I plan to keep the site on-line for several more months at least, but
there will be no more updates. Thank you all for
stopping by this little internet curiosity, I hope
you had a laugh or two!
March 13, 2007
Origami tessellation folder Eric Gjerde lives in Minneapolis, MN. He is currently working for a stock brokerage firm by day while folding anything within reach at night. Questions, comments, catcalls and correspondence can be directed to origomi@mac.com.
March 13, 2007
The “Woodie”, or home climbing wall is a project many a climber has dreamed into existence. Late night sketches on the back of drink coasters, and avid discussions of angles, holds, size, location, and so on, has lead to many a half-hearted construction. Usually a serious attempt is only made when opportunity knocks. In my case this was gaining a friend who is a builder. He took my hastily compiled sketches, and jumble of timber and produced the result (pictured right), within a single afternoon.
March 13, 2007
an old water heater tank can be adapted to make a safe and inexpensive biodiesel homebrewing apparatus. An HDPE carboy (white jug in photo) or other tank can become a passive small-scale methanol-catalyst mixer, and an inexpensive centrifugal pump (blue motor in photo) from Harbor Freight tools mixes the two liquids to enable the biodiesel reaction to take place. After a day of settling, the glycerol byproduct can be drained out fairly well- the tanks have a wine-bottle-bottom profile, with a drain at the ‘pointed’ edge, so separation of two liquids can be reasonably clean. The processor costs about $150 in plumbing and electrical, and about a day or less of work. The tank can be an ancient lime-crusted one scavenged from a dump, or can be bought new for about $200 more.
March 13, 2007
HE goal with this project was to build a retro keyboard that was fully functional and of a sufficient quality that it could be used everyday by a touch typist. In order to achieve this I chose a high quality (though widely available) keyboard as my starting point. This is an IBM Model M “Clicky” keyboard. They were made starting in the mid 1980’s and a version is still manufactured today. This particular keyboard was made in 1989 and shipped with and IBM PowerStation 530, a UNIX box the size of a kegerator.
March 12, 2007
3.0.9 – Das Bild zeigt das, mit den Distanzstu”cken und Verschlu?segmenten fertig montierte, Rotorpaket auf der Welle.
Mit dieser Bauform des Rotors ergibt sich zyklisch ein vollsta”ndiger Verschlu? der Du”seno”ffnung, welcher eine harte Resonanz im Du”senstock zu Folge hat. Der Resonator / Du”senstock sollte hier mit einer hinreichend dicken Wandung definiert werden.
March 12, 2007
Welcome to the home page of The Tesla Wardenclyffe Project.Our mission is the preservation and adaptive reuse of Wardenclyffe,the century-old laboratory of electrical pioneer Nikola Teslalocated in Shoreham, Long Island, New York. Also..The Peerless Photo Products site presently includes a 94′ x 94′ brick building designed by noted turn-of-the-century architect Stanford White, the perimeter foundation wall of the communications facility’s wireless transmission tower, and a number of newer structures.
March 12, 2007
One of the more controversial topics involving Nikola Tesla is what became of many of his technical and scientific papers after he died in 1943. Just before his death at the height of World War II, he claimed that he had perfected his so-called “death beam.” So it was natural that the FBI and other U.S. Government agencies would be interested in any scientific ideas involving weaponry. Some were concerned that Tesla’s papers might fall into the hands of the Axis powers or the Soviets.




