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Ben gives a presentation about a sounding rocket that he and a group of coworkers designed, built and launched. You can read about more Omaha Maker Group presentations at www.omahamakergroup.org.

We've been beat…Power Wheels Jeep makes an awesome R/C car[Will] from RevoltLab wrote in to share part one of a cool project he is working on right now, a remote-controlled mobile rocket launcher. Before you run off and call the Department of Hom…

This is a pretty thoughtful comment on consumption… Basically push vs pull, by product type.Sold or bought?Some things are bought–like bottled water, airplane tickets and chewing gum. The vendor sets up shop and then waits, patiently, for someone to…

Free Day is Tomorrow!Well the time is near – tomorrow at 9 AM Mountain Time, SparkFun is hosting the third edition of Free Day. This year we are giving away $200,000 worth of $100 credits to the SparkFun website. Show up here at 9 AM Mountain Time on J…

A few months back, now, I traded in my Samsung Moment for my first keyboardless smartphone, the Motorola Photon.  The Photon (as with most keyboardless phones) is substantially thinner than my Moment, and a whole heck of a lot faster. I’m not going to bore you with specs, but it’s very comparable to my Viewsonic [...]

So it’s my birthday again;  Becky and I were discussing cakes, so I turned up some photos of cakes (mostly) made by Mom when I was a kid.  The airbrushed (blue) one is obviously store-bought, but the others are assembled from various cake shapes.  I think these cakes are from my 5th, 6th, and 7th [...]

Over the long weekend, I finally got around to painting our storage cubby.  This space is at the back of one of our closets, about waist high.  The space itself is about 4x4x8 (wxhxd) and uses up the area over a stairwell.  The walls were always getting beat up, as we store “long term storage” [...]