Apr 28

Have you ever noticed what terrible injuries we can cause to ourselves by ourselves? Or maybe it’s just me…

Over the years I have spent many long hours building things with wood and I’ve had a number of stupid accidents. Amongst other things, I have managed to hit myself on the forehead with a claw hammer, whack my own shin with a sledge hammer and run a bow saw across my knuckles on numerous occasions. So frequent were these mishaps, Read the rest of this entry »

Apr 12
Do You Know?

Most of us know the fundamental idea behind energy: that it transfers from thing to thing and place to place invisibly, always turning in to something new and never disappearing out of sight for long. But what most people don’t know (me included) is that motors waste tons of the stuff. And according to the guys and girls at Enigin there are a lot of motors in the world doing just that. Enough that loosing this much energy is actually Read the rest of this entry »