I wanted a cookie monster costume for halloween, so I looked up how to make furry costumes (a strange rabbit hole), deadmau5 heads, and emailed a friend for advice. Here's what came out of it -
The head is based on a construction helmet. You can see a cable coming down to my hand. That's a repurposed brake lever ...
This is the surfboard I've taken the most pictures of, and its also the one that escaped the truck on the freeway and was hit by many cars. It was also the most fun to make, and here are some photos of the process.
In case you ever want to make surfboards, here are the things to remember: + ...
This year, the house's contribution to burning man was bike ramps. The goal was to make ramps small enough that they were relatively safe, but large enough to give a little thrill. The result was 10 ramps that lit up at night, and had lips that were 8-12" high.
Here's how they looked at night. The lights were either solid ...
I wanted a free way to look at all of the interesting outdoor spots and trails on a map. This was a problem in 2009 when I was making this site, because spatial data types weren't common in databases, openstreetmap wasn't near as good as Google yet, and the request/response cycle time is slow compared to how quickly ...
I wanted a bamboo bike, but the only person building them was Calfee, and he was somehow making the most expensive bikes around from the cheapest materials on earth. I made an instructable on how this was done and what I learned. Check it out if you want the dirty details on how to make your own.