Several years ago I received a phone call from Jason Scott, asking if he could come down and interview me for a documentary on the development of the Computer Bulletin Board System – BBS. I affably agreed to the visit. He arrived camera and kit akimbo and we chatted for an hour or so on […]
LEFT BEHIND IS A CHOICE, NOT A RANDOM EVENT Read More »
It’s been three and a half years since our first video and three years in November since we began a weekly series of videos on electric cars. The premise was preposterous on the face of it – how to convert a car to electric drive. And some days I do think I have finally gone
GREAT SOUND AND FURY Does Not an Electric Car Make Read More »
And a $6,500 dollar $23,000 van is better than a $57,000 dollar $23,000 van. Duh. Busy week. We moved 15 sets of Siemens motor/DMOC 645 controller from Saturday to Thursday. Shot our video on Friday and I was infuriated to find that the Sound Juicer battery had failed halfway through our Friday session. Yes, of
Hardware is Not Hard, and Software is not Soft. Read More »
We failed to produce a show last week. This is partially a function of being under the weather a bit. I’ve had lung crud that has weakened me considerably. We had a bevy of daughters arriving for Thanksgiving celebrations. And Richard and Mike went to Detroit to manage the loading of a large and heavy
It’s a deal. We’ve had quite a busy week, but not terribly productive. Just a lot of interruptions. One of the pleasant ones was receipt of a brand new HPEVS AC-75 motor – a pre-production prototype. This motor goes into production within the next month and we’re very encouraged by it. The only really affordable,
CYCLE OF LIFE AND COLD WEATHER LIFE CYCLES Read More »
We struggled to get a show out this week. Part of the problem was that I spent entirely too much time playing with RechargeCar’s AutoBlock AMP. For some reason, I keep having a brain freeze and calling it the AMPBLOCKER. I have no idea where that came from. The REchargeGuys chose PROCESSING to develop the
If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room. Or so I’ve been told. This week’s show is almost entirely devoted to watching paint dry. But it’s fast dry paint. We attempted to charge a CA40FI series cell at a 3C 120 ampere rate. The Chinese manufacturers of the Thundersky, Sky
CHARGE FAST – DIE YOUNG – LEAVE A GREAT LOOKING CAR Read More »
We managed to do a show in LESS than two hours this week which was a considered accomplishment in which we take no small pride. I tend to through everything I have on hand into each weekly missive. But we’ve had too much. A three hour show is too long and it’s too hard to
Shorter Show – Shorter Build. Read More »
Our longest show ever. One reason is Speedster Nippon. We like to do builds week by week in a kind of plodding fashion matching our weekly publishing schedule. In this case, we are under some pressure to complete this build by November 1 and we do want to ship it to Japan at least in
The Art of Driving the Aircraft Carrier. Read More »
We’ve had a little time to recover and the post event depression is lifting. In these type of events, I spend five or six days, shall we say, overstimulated AND overserved of the humble leakage from my garage still at the same time. Post event, I’m pretty much a collapsed heap. But things are brightening
EVCCON 2012 – A CALL TO ARMS Read More »
