Beep Beep

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Gillman Subaru’s “The Big Event IV” with Dave Mirra and Bucky Lasek

Endeavour

Spashdown

Liftoff

Zip ties to the rescue

With a coolant expansion tank failure on the Volvo, it’s zip ties to the rescue. Can they handle the heat? I’m pretty sure they can, I accidentally baked a few of them in the oven at 375 for about an hour and they showed no signs of discoloration or melting. This’ll work until I get the new coolant tank next week.

Headphone Amp Set in Clear Acrylic

I need to get a headphone amp for my Sennheiser HD280 Pros – maybe this will be my next project. A headphone amplifier assembled “dead bug” style, then set in clear acrylic. Yes. I want one.

Electronic engineers have been encapsulating or potting electronics in resin’s for decades usually for vibration dampening or moisture control its just I decided to make it look presentable :)

Source: Rupert Hirst / Runaway Brainz

Discovery atop 747

Space Shuttle Discovery mated with SCA NASA 905 chase flight from KSC – VAB in the background.

Source: NASA / Sheri Dunnette Locke

Space Shuttle Discovery

I’m still upset that Houston didn’t get one. Thanks for the words, Engadget:

Disable the camera shutter sound in the Google Nexus S 4G

Just wrote up a short how-to on how to disable the camera shutter sound in the Google Nexus S 4G – this requires superuser / root but otherwise is a 5 minute procedure.