Yes, it’s been a while, hope you don’t feel terribly neglected at the lack of updates 🙁
Lots of cool things going on as always:
A tesla coil in need of a few tweaks showed up and its spare transformer quickly became a Jacob’s Ladder:
City of Madison shut down due to a snow emergency? No problem, stop out at Sector67:
What might you ask is special about the parts remaining in the box? They’re all non-ferrous and that big green C-shaped object is a huge electromagnet (http://www.magnaflux.com/):
What happens when software programmers have too many tools that they know how to use? They prototype their new game ideas in real life to get a feel for how things really should work _before_ they create them virtually:
Some ancient Apple hardware boots right up after the floppy OS disk was found:
Sector67 receives a new 800MHz PIII router (a welcome upgrade after a MadHackerHaus meltdown):
I’m occasionally asked what random things I run into when I come into work at a hackerspace, this would be one of them:
Note the excessive number of levels and pile of shims? Yes, our floor is that bad. . . (2″ rise over 12′)
Couple of cool prototypes getting closer:
Entirely built out of cardboard, rubber bands, and servos:
Little bit of welding; oxy-acetylene and MIG:
Headphone cord repair:
Razor electric scooter got a new lease on life, the rear solid tire was so badly out of round from skidding that it needed a good resurfacing:
And of course conventional nerding out:
