One engineer's project-log, thoughts and ideas.

Entries for July, 2010

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Other: Engineering Survey

- What versioning system do you use? – What is your IDE/Code Editor of choice and why? – Assuming a particular problem could be solved best in any language (which is certainly never the case amirite?), what would be your language of choice? – Here are a variety of tools/methods used in various programming circumstances: [...]

Make: Workbench

Here are some photos I took during the process of building my garage workbench. The top surface is three layers of wood glue laminated birch ply, with 4 by 4 pine legs and 2 by 6 pine frame. I’d have to say the most difficult part by far was drilling the holes straight enough through [...]

Make: Knex & Lego Plotter – The first attempt.

This was my first attempt at a Lego / Knex hybrid plotter — constructed back in 2008. And, as with many of my firsts I over engineered it quite a bit. While I got it to move successfully, I couldn’t get enough precision to draw anything legible for a variety of reasons. I had hoped [...]

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Run your car with Mr.Fusion

These guys converted a honda to run on syngas from a gassifier. A current day Mr.Fusion, so cool! Convert your Honda Accord to run on trash – More DIY How To Projects All the parts for the basic system, if you weld it yourself are available for something like $1200. Controller board is arduino based [...]