• The Environment

    Riding Clean

    By Posted on 6.24.2008 11 Comments

    Among his other unusual hobbies (he also builds sculptures featuring fire-spewing robots), 32-year-old Justin Gray makes custom electric motorcycles. To create his latest drag racer, the R144, Gray tore the motor and gasoline systems out of a 1999 Yamaha R1, a bike with a frame large enough to hold the extra parts he needed for the conversion. Since the gas engine had been an important structural element in the original bike, he built his own aluminum motor bracket to hold the modified bike together.

    6.18.2008 at 04:37pm - Comment by JWILLIAMS

    sorry about the error. I will be using 6 12 volt 12 amp/hour batteries which are the same dimensions and only 1 pound more. J

  • DIY

    The Best Game-Console Mods

    By Posted on 5.19.2008 17 Comments

    Ben Heckendorn’s game-console creations, from a portable Atari 2600 to a pocket-sized Nintendo 64, are famous in the modder world. But he may have topped himself with his Xbox 360 Elite laptop. To shoehorn a full 360 into the 2.25-by-16-by-12-inch case and keep it playable, Heckendorn had to install fans and speakers and redo the internal layout of the machine several times. He then rewired the console to output the video to the 17-inch LCD display, on which he mounted an Xbox Live Vision camera for online multiplayer games.

    6.17.2008 at 06:05pm - Comment by JWILLIAMS

    redwarrior is right. Without Halo the xbox would not be worth its weight in dog crap. I have something close to that. I used a 12 volt deep cycle car battery and a 400 watt DC to AC inverter to power a playstation and a small linux computer inside of an old suitcase with wheels. works great! i love it! J

  • DIY

    A Car-Crushing Motorcycle

    By Posted on 5.21.2008 2 Comments

    Stuntman Ray Baumann is accustomed to vehicles that soar through the air, vaulting over rows of cars. But the Australian’s latest ride makes its bones on the ground. It’s the Monster Motorbike from Hell, a 10-foot-tall, 15-ton beast that drags vans around racetracks and flattens sedans as if they were soda cans.

    6.17.2008 at 05:55pm - Comment by JWILLIAMS

    Me to (but with an 8 cylinder diesel engine) J

  • The Environment

    Riding Clean

    By Posted on 6.24.2008 11 Comments

    Among his other unusual hobbies (he also builds sculptures featuring fire-spewing robots), 32-year-old Justin Gray makes custom electric motorcycles. To create his latest drag racer, the R144, Gray tore the motor and gasoline systems out of a 1999 Yamaha R1, a bike with a frame large enough to hold the extra parts he needed for the conversion. Since the gas engine had been an important structural element in the original bike, he built his own aluminum motor bracket to hold the modified bike together.

    6.17.2008 at 02:31pm - Comment by JWILLIAMS

    I love the idea of an electric bike. I am going to build one out of an old mountain bike that has been collecting dust for about a year. I am going to use a 36 volt 1 kilowatt motor and a Kelly 100 amp controller from cloudelectric.com and a throttle and 3 12 volt 7 amp/hour batteries from evparts.com. I will use a 60 tooth sprocket at the engine and a 10 tooth sprocket at both wheels (both will be driven by the same motor). The motor has a rev limit of about 2500. With this gear ratio and rev limit i should be able to go about 70 (I know this because i have another mountain bike which i put a 50cc 26000 rpm gas engine on with the same gear ratio and it will go almost 80 mph(unsur of exact speed, no speedometer). This will cost me about 600 dollars but will be well worth the cost. J

  • DIY

    The $5 IR Keyboard

    By Posted on 2.13.2008 4 Comments

    If you happen to still have a PDA and youre looking for a cheap IR keyboard, look no further than BG Micro. BG Micro has slashed $55 off the former retail price of the discontinued Targus Universal Wireless Keyboard (PA870U).

    3.14.2008 at 08:17pm - Comment by JWILLIAMS

    Is there a computer adapter available that will allow you to use this with a modern Windows Vista laptop? J



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