We wrote up the Uno for the first time back in 2008, then again in 2009. It started out as a high school project where Benjamin Gulak put together an electric motorcycle with parallel wheels, moving forward and backward like a Segway. It was a pretty neat project for a high school student, but it [...]
March 2011
Went to an auction last week thinking I might be able to pick up some tools and possibly a tool box for the garage. As it turns out I didn’t bid on the box, so I’m still looking. Since most of us here are tool guys, we pretty much know what to expect with tool [...]
The holy grail of battery development is a battery with high capacity plus the ability to discharge and then recharge quickly, or translated into vehicle terms, a battery that holds the energy equivalent of the standard gas tank that you can recharge as quickly as a gas station fill up. Supercapacitors can charge and discharge [...]
Do you know Bob? Bob likes to work with his hands. He’s really curious, too. He’s always looking inside devices of all sorts, constantly tearing through those “no user serviceable parts inside” tags, to figure out how they work, voiding most of his warranties along the way, to his wife’s dismay, but, though he’s had [...]
