Just a quick note to let you know that I've set up a new blog that is focused on model engines. You can find it at www.modelengines4fun.com. I'll be adding several new sites soon to focus on specific topics. This blog will evolve into a blog about featured articles from other sites. A few months ago I switched to a Blackberry Curve - hoping to see some speed gains with T-Mobile's data network. I had been using an older T-Mobile SDA phone and it was working okay, but just didn't work with the EDGE network. Compatibility wise, it was a fantastic phone - with an unlimited data plan, I could tether it to my Nokia 770/800, Asus EEE or just about anything. The BlackBerry had better PIM applications and support for the ... I'd heard MIT was openly publishing their course ware, but I hadn't realized the extent of it. They have over 1800 courses online and anyone can access the entire content free of charge. When I started exploring what all they have, I felt liked I'd just found a gold mine, and I suppose I have - do you know what it would cost to take all these courses? (Presuming you could live long enough to do so???) Anyways, I recommend ... Model Making Including Workshop Practice, Design and Construction of Models Here is another treasure I found while digging around Google books.This book really covers some territory. There is just too much good information in this volume for me to go through it chapter by chapter, so let me hit some highlights. First, I love the chapter devoted to pattern making. These patterns ...
The Model Engineer's Handybook: A Practical Manual On Model Steam Engines Author: Paul N. Hasluck Published 1902
The book reviews I post on my blog are quite simply books I've read and like. I suppose I might write a review if I really didn't like a book too. But I have no difficulty putting down a book ... I was talking with my team (ie, my kids) the other day about this CNC robot and the kinds of things you can use it for and one of my girls brought up the question of what we would name the robot. After a little while, we decided on 'Santa Clause'. I'm realizing now maybe I set the expectations just a tad high. This past weekend I got to work on the Z-Axis. I still have a little ways to ... A few days ago, my kids were playing with my neighbor's son – he has a trampoline and is therefore the most popular little boy on the block – and I spotted my neighbor out, so I went over to say hi. My 3-year old daughter was talking to him and he was laughing his head off. I was curious what she was up. My neighbor said, “your daughter just told me that you are building a CNC robot ... I've been working on plans for a robot. While discussing this with my chief assistant, he had an excellent suggestion: “Dad, I have an idea, why don't we first make a robot that can make other robots?”. Chad is 11 and has some experience with Mindstorms and, as you have just noticed, is somewhat on the lazy side. Which is a valuable character asset when you are a robotics engineer. Who would want a robot built by an engineer that ...  Making Simple Model Steam Engines This book is simply outstanding. So many books I have bought on the subject of building model engines of one sort or another are just disappointing in one way or another. Not so with this book. I enjoyed it from one end to the other. I like this book because it isn't just a recounting of the ... This weekend I finally got RSS feeds working on the site. Post a comment here if you have problems using them – make sure you let me know which reader you are trying to use. As I have mentioned elsewhere, this web site is built using Python and Django. Turns out the Django framework has an outstanding syndication framework. Following the documentation and samples here: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/syndication_feeds/ it took very little time to actually get them working. I have ...
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