BusBuilding

Clarke is among our most well-spoken busilosophers.

One thing I’ve found in my life: I like challenges, and I decided to build the bus just to prove I could. Given the dollars spent, the return on investment in experience and knowledge gained makes it a decent undertaking, even if I never get beyond where I currently am. I have very few regrets in my life, and I have had the good fortune of having a father who … was willing to let me build and try things, whether they succeeded or failed, so I was not afraid to attempt the unusual.

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Well, he’s the one who posted this with the title, “I need a life!”

A retired corporate executive decided to take a vacation. He booked himself on a Caribbean cruise and proceeded to have the time of his life…until the boat sank! He found himself on an island with no other people, no supplies, nothing, only bananas and coconuts.

After about four months, he is lying on the beach one day, when the most gorgeous woman he has ever seen rows up to the shore. In disbelief, he asks her, “Where did you come from? How did you get here?”

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Dorset inventor Peter Hughes’ Electro-Kinetic Road Ramp generates between five and 50kW, each time a car drives over its metal plates, depending on the weight of the vehicle.

[BBC News]
[via Digg]

Low cost movable housing modules that can form different configurations on land, on water and under water. The Micro Dwellings can expand and grow together with other systems into small communities. They can be built onto rooftops of existing buildings or be suspended from a bridge or a wall.

The MICRO DWELLINGS consist of equal-sized units in the form of truncated octahedrons. Truncated octahedra will fill space when combined. They can also be joined with a variety of platonic and archimedic shapes into numerous combinations. The truncated octahedron is a plate-stable construction, which means that the construction once the plates are assembled, need no further reinforcement, as the plates themselves provide the support.

[Denmark’s Micro Dwellings]

22nd Annual Quartzsite RV Show - Jan 21st thru 29th, 2006

More Facts & Figures than you ever wanted to know…
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An online video of the entire automobile assembly process. From stamping the structure and body panels, powertrain installation, painting and final assembly to the car rolling off the line. From Toyota Motor Manufacturing in Georgetown, Kentucky.
[MAKE Magazine]