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Arg

Just fixing this again (argh). Bear with me. Pictures are down, and other stuff. Fixed this weekend.
Update: Mostly fixed now. Some of the older images and links still down. The new WordPress MU has been a bit persnickety.

My dad and the electro-assist bicycle

In the 60’s and 70’s, my dad worked off and on on building one of these things in the garage; he called it the “Friction Compensator”. (eROCKIT electro-assist bicycle)

I’m not kidding. He was an electrical engineer by education, and also converted a 1947 Crossley to electric power with a big rack of lead-acid batteries [...]

Building the T-1 for Skynet

Australia seeks new army robots — an “intelligent and fully autonomous system” capable of carrying out dangerous surveillance missions.

Arrgghh! Crash and reboot

This site went totally flaky.  So, reboot.
UPDATE: Got most of the posts back; there’s a few from May that didn’t make it.
POST-UPDATE:  Everything’s working now, basically.

Objects of my youthful lust

BB Video: Inside Electro-Harmonix, guitar pedal engineers and vintage vacuum tubes – Boing Boing.