Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Here is another great site with home made rockets and video cameras, two great tastes that go great together! 🙂
Not totally sure what type of camera they used but they put it under the nose where the chute would be deployed. This seems to reduce the amount of spin that has shown up on other rocket cameras. Its pretty cool, makes me want to go out and buy a rocket.
These books are a wonderful read, cover to cover you will find contraptions and ideas for solving all sorts of problems of every day life.
Many of them may have been practical years ago but are now jaw dropingly weird, but they will still make you knock away the cobwebs in your brain and appreciate the cleverness of these books.
Volume one is available from Project Gutenberg as a free download (its over 500 pages long!) as it’s now out of print but volume three you can buy from Lindsay’s Technical Books (a goldmine of almost forgotten information can be found there!). It would be worth looking for volume one on eBay just because having a nicely bound book is a heck of a lot better than a stack of papers held together with binder clips.
The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 by Popular Mechanics
The Boy Mechanic: Volume 3 from Lindsay Books
Hayabusa arrived Itokawa on 10:00 am, 12 Sep (JST: Japanese Standard Time) and is now hovers orbiting some 20 kilometers off from Asteroid Itokawa.
Agent Greg has this to say:
25 watts is pretty impressive. Three of them could run a 75 watt light bulb.
I’m looking forward to an LED light powered by methanol. Just the thing for camping.
I believe this will be the future of electric cars, by the way. Methanol fuel cells with regenerative braking and eventually battery banks and some solar assist.
Some info from the article:
Fuel cell developer UltraCell has come up with a new fuel cell power source for portable electronic devices that it says has twice the energy density of lithium batteries. That’s potentially very good news for power-hungry mobile gadgeteers…
UltraCell’s reformed methanol fuel cell, or RMFC, technology uses a micro reformer to generate fuel-cell-ready hydrogen from a highly concentrated methanol solution. The new portable power system has the density of a hydrogen fuel cell but uses readily available, low-cost methanol fuel in a compact package.
Mount St. Helens is back in the news again. This time there was a 2.9 mag. earthquake and a new lava spine growing where an old one was. Looks pretty neat no matter what.
Make sure you keep your eye on the Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam and the Johnston Ridge Observatory Camera Loop to see what is up on the summit.
I want a magazine sized sheet of this that will display PDF files, simple text files, and the Zino file format so I can read the electronic versions of magazines. Plus a compact flash slot and USB interface for easy loading of files. Could this be the beginning of on demand newspapers? Just get the ePaper and load it from newspaper sellers or off the Internet.
world’s first film substrate-based bendable color electronic paper with an image memory function. The new electronic paper features vivid color images that are unaffected even when the screen is bent, and features an image memory function that enables continuous display of the same image without the need for electricity. The thin and flexible electronic paper uses very low power to change screen images, thereby making it ideal for displaying information or advertisements in public areas as a type of new electronic media that can be handled as easily as paper.
Fujitsu Color ePaper Press Release