A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.
03 May 2004
Again harvesting the halloween sig, a bunch of ideas for prop building:
* When looking for scrap juicers as motors in props (for instance an axworthy ghost), look for metal body juicers – a lot tougher than the plastic juicers. * Use a Fishtank bubbler as source of bubbles in mad scientist lab – cheap and easy! * Lots of folks using windshield wiper motors for props. Some very nice characteristics – back and forth repetitive motion, speed and intermittency controllable. Trying to achieve this kind of output with a standard rotary motor would be very complicated. * How to demonify a skull * 4 bar simulation software – very helpful for pneumatic design * a bunch of skulls and skull sections for use in projects. Oh and a source for inexpensive skulls in bulk.