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Front Wheel Drive Moving Bottom Bracket Experiments
Some random experiments with front wheel drive bikes. Originally published at Bike-Recumbent.com The first iteration is based on Tom Traylor's designs. As with the SWB project I am looking for a bike that I can ultimately try and put in a full fairing. With the short wheelbase bike I
Cheap Hydration System for a Recumbent Bicycle.
When I changed the handlebars on my Tour Easy for a "T" bar arrangement I needed to find a new place for my water bottles. I took a look at some of the Camelback type systems available but balked at their prices. In the past I'd used homemade "hydration"
Home Depot Bike Headlight
How to make high power bicycle headlights with materials from your local home center. This is an article from a few years back that was up at Bike-Recumbent.com, I'm consolidating everything from there over to here. Nearly five years after I built them I am still using these headlights with
Life Inc. Douglas Rushkoff
A couple of years ago I sat down and tried to write a description of what Steampunk was as a sub-culture, or more precisely, what I thought it could be. I filled half a moleskine with my scribblings before I decided the whole exercise was hubris, folly,
Morbid Outlook does Steampunk
Here is a nice article in the online 'zine Morbid Outlook on the subject of Steampunk. Featured are the work and images of many of my friends including the multi-talented Libby Bulloff and local Boston artist David Dowling along with quotes from the always wonderful Steampunk Magazine. While I
Laurence’s Etched Altoids Tins
Laurence writes: Dear Sir: I have added some pictures to my flickr photoset of my new etching designs. http://www.flickr.com/photos/isitcrunchy/sets/72157603416203522/ Your site was the inspiration for this madness. Each design has to be hunted for, modified, printed, modified again, etched, modified again, and then a batch of ‘production quality’
Steampunk Keyboard Mod
My 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
Jake’s Google Reader Shared Items
I’ve decided that I’m not going to maintain the feed to SPWS from my Google Reader shared item page. However, if you are still interested in watching the feed, you’ll find it Here. Jake.
Stunning Etched Brass Modular Synth
I am just speechless. More here und here via Burnlab
HUMANWINE – Hunt for the Golden Ticket
My good friends HUMANWINE are playing tomorrow, June 27th, 2009 at The Paradise in Boston. Alas, I will not be able to attend but if you’d like to go for free all you need do is find a hidden Golden Ticket! There’s just over twenty-four hours left to find