Now Presenting: How to Build Your EVERYTHING Really Really Fast!

It’s done!

I’ve been practically a recluse for the past week and a half while I turned over every stone in my brain and mined the depths of my archived data drives for build report pictures. Compiling all the information that I and my peer cloud have thrown into our collective cauldron of engineering-under-duress tactics and weapons of engineering design warfare, I hereby present

How to Build Your Everything Really Really Fast

HTBYERRF will officially supercede my old How to Build Your Robot Really Really Fast. I hope to keep adding to it and also take user contributions for example images. Unfortunately, I have some gripes with the way Instructables now lays out images – there’s no clear order for them any more, and they’ve also gotten rid of the ‘bottom row’ of images, which means some of my old references to “above” and “below” in Chibikart and Scooter Power Systems now make no sense. So perhaps more example images will not really help the situation…

Either way, merry new year. Go build some robots!

Additionally, this is the first thing I’ve …built? manifested? which I actually would like to see sprayed all over the Internets. Ultimately, I see more discussion and knowledge-sharing as beneficial, and I think this new document can help spur it. Feel free to sprinkle the link or page where you feel appropriate.

oneTesla on Kickstarter!

I have a reputation for trashing on Kickstarter products, but this one is near and dear to my EMI-induced heart palpitations.

The backstory: A group of students at MITERS have been working on a singing Tesla Coil kit. Having witnessed and supported small aspects of its development through this whole year, I have to sing (via plasma) the praises of the level of design and engineering that’s gone into it.

It’s now live on Kickstarter and has already made its way onto Mashable.

oneTesla also has an official website. Everybody go coil!