If you haven’t heard of the awesome Dorkbot Empire, it’s a loose affiliation of engineers, artists, makers, and hackers meeting once a month talking about ‘Doing Strange Things with Electricity”. After I attended the April meeting (a jam packed kit-building night) I had lunch with Josh Kopel , one of the organizers of the Seattle…
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Scrapes-N-Spins 7 – the Ressurection of LabRat1
Scrapes-N-Spins 7 is here! All the juicy hoonage you love in racing condensed into one awesome video by driver/video producer Scott Miller – also featuring racing artistry by Brent Picasso , Anthony Kalcounis , John Kimball , Drew Hanft and Harry Taylor. Props to Jason Miller for trackside video footage! And now, Enjoy:
A Rat Tale, Chapter Three
Green Flag Cowboy couldn’t remember ever being this excited. The cars and their drivers were heading out onto the track for the single-file rolling start. The teams and spectators were lining pit wall and cheering. No one knew exactly which car was going to get the green flag, but when the green flag flew, it…
A Rat Tale, Chapter Two
About a month later, after Cowboy and the team got used to having a turbo and the small issues that came with it, the team put him and all their racing gear on a trailer. Cowboy couldn’t believe what he was hearing. He was sure he heard someone say that the team was going to…
Megajolt Lite Jr V4… Rev D
Freescale, You Tormentor It happened with the V3 controller when Freescale obsoleted the KX8 processor we were using. This prompted us to move to the V4 design with the similar, slightly more capable QB8. We mitigated the situation, moving many components to surface-mount to enhance ruggedness and stuffed it into a much prettier case. However,…
And the winner..
Hey, we have a winner! WinnerS that is! So we has some awesome T-shirt design submissions over the course of the contest period. It was actually really hard to choose the top two designs, so we chose two, plus combined two funny/cool designs together and declared 4 winners. Why? cause we’re just full of love…
XYZ
There are three types of drivers… Driver X Driver X travels the world of accepting surfaces with clarity and purpose, regardless of the information available and the action or inaction of Drivers’ Y and Z. Driver X’s underlying driving philosophy is: “Driving is what it is and isn’t what it isn’t.” Driver Y Driver Y…
Megajolt T-Shirt design contest!
Can you beat that tag line? I bet you can. Here at ASL headquarters we banged our heads together for a microsecond and had the brilliant, incredibly unique idea of launching a Megajolt t-shirt design contest! Theme-wise just about anything goes: cool, funny, ironic, edgy, smug, even slightly risque would be considered (double entendre’, anyone?). …
Off and on
For the most part, I drive the speed limit. I stick to the right lane unless passing the infrequent hyper-miler or deliberate RV pilot. However, on-ramps and off-ramps are bit of a grey area for me. Just the other day a passenger of mine experienced this transition uncertainty. Subaru sales person Tim and I were…
A Movie Review of “A Moving Movie About Moving”.
Actually, that movie was emotionally moving for me. I am so grateful for the giving of time and care and concern by our friends and family on moving day. And I am moved because for the first time since this little business was born, it now resides outside our home. Which for some may sound…