I‘m kind of getting lightsabered out. I promise that this will be my last mention of them for a while. But I did have some leftover lightsaber making supplies sitting around after Halloween, so I used them to build a “saber” that I could actually use. In place of the blade, I installed a 7 [...]

I think that I may have just out-nerded myself. You see, the 2-minute dueling sabers were fun for a couple of days, but they weren’t the most durable things in the world and were a bit lacking in the realism department. So I decided to build a nicer set of “elegant weapons from a more [...]

A 5th grade tinkerer named Luigi Maiorano built this fine little working hydroelectric power plant and showed it off at my kid’s school science fair.

Mikes Ray-Gun is much bigger than yours. – Hacking Lazer Tag Team Ops.

Megasquirt Part II of converting a BMW 2002 to Megasquirt DIY Fuel Injection – Building the controller, cable and relay board.

Megasquirt – DIY Fuel Injection Conversion Introduction

Portable Televisions of Yesterday, and the day before.

Nixie tubes were the state of the art in electronic numerical displays during the mid-twentieth century. By the 1970′s.hey were almost completely supplanted …

The theremin is unlike any other musical instrument in that you don’t actually touch the theremin while you play it. You just sort of wave your hands around in front of it.

what do I like most about my iPod?

The 1973 Becker Europa II Stereo AM/FM radio.