Pic Drop II

All images taken with 1st generation iphone.

Pic Drop

All taken with 1st Generation iphone.

Art meet Engineering

Monsterbike / Wouter van den Bosch from Novalis on Vimeo.

Pic here.

Tesla Coil

Here is a link to Instructables how build a Tesla Coil... for under $30.
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-build-a-Tesla-Coil/

I've added it to my list.

Fan for the Dog

I quick wired up a 110 muffin fan to a switch and power cord and mounted it in side the kennel.

While I was putting fans places I gave my 110 buzz box one as well.

Link Dump

So I have had a hand full of windows open and now I'm gonna do something with them.

8 Reasons Engineers Should Spend Their Time in a Machine shop

From: Industrial Interface Engineering Blog

8. Machinists will often need to alter your part to machine some of the features. Work through this together and you’ll both be happier.

7. When you first bring your drawing to the machine shop, it’s common to scribble notes and explain what’s “not that critical.” This is a valuable exercise, but take the time to alter the drawing in your design software before giving it back to the machine shop.

6. For many parts, the machining costs are 5X or 10X the cost of the raw materials. Planning with a machinist can reduce the material costs.

5. When you send your part to be machined, you will (hopefully) get the exact part you drew. Great, except that your part needed 4 unique tooling setups and 15 different bits. Walk through this process with the machinist.

4. Often, adjusting relatively unimportant features of your part will make it half as difficult to machine.

3. You can draw a lot of things in Pro/E and SolidWorks that you can’t make in the real world.

2. Machinists know more about machining parts than you do. Say it with me … Machinists know more about machining parts than you do.

1. Learn from Machinists. They have made thousands of parts and seen amazing design solutions. They always have creative input.

55 Great Sites For Woodworkers

Haven't looked at all 55 sites but the ones I have seen I like.

100 Science Blogs

Well its more like 91 blogs and 9 podcasts.

Here is a quick break down

11 Tech Science

10 Skeptic, Neuroscience, and Green Science

9 Life, Health Science and Science News

8 Scientific Debate and Science Study

7 Teaching Science

and

9 Podcasts

thanks to abbi for that link

So I think I might be able to shut now my computer now with out fear... maybe.

Tatra T-87

I have been working at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts since October and one of the best things in the collection is the is the Tatra T-87 sedan.

Image Link

I get more questions about the car than an other "work" in the museum, so I did some digging for information about the car. So here is what I know it was designd 1936 and put in to production through to 1950 and around 3,000 where made. It has a reare mounted air cooled V8 engine with the gas cap under the hood in the front. The Czechoslovakian made car was popular with the German Officers in WWII but Hitler banned it after two many officers where killed driving it.

Rumor has it that the battery and stater motor have been removed from the car at the MIA but it came with a crank start along with many other goodies like extra spark pugs and an oil can.

Take a look a what Jay Leno has to say about his.




http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z9132/Tatra-T87.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_T87