Comments on: Steven Laurie’s Art of the Motor

By: Hemi Hot Rods

Hemi Hot Rods — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:36:59 +0000

you guys have lost your minds! Cool but just lost it…

By: j s

j s — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:40:51 +0000

The Stationary Revving Machine has a fan on it to keep the engines from overheating because they are so close together.

By: robert

robert — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:34:10 +0000

was initially novel but quickly became lame

By: ewertz

ewertz — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:40:04 +0000

this is exactly why cousins shouldn’t have children

By: Louis

Louis — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:11:53 +0000

This is not a hack. Some guy modified some tools for his art project... and didn't leave instructions that we could tinker with.

Is that what this site is about these days?
Worthless slashdot news items?

We do not come here to read it like it's the http://valleywag.com/ short opinion site. We come here to see exactly what a hack is, how it is done, how it applies to our appliances and then modify the hacks presented.

What is with all this news-like horse crap?

By: Uranium

Uranium — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:51:36 +0000

I must say these machines sound very good. This looks so cool. What a sound. NOT!

This is a joke right?

By: HeBD

HeBD — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:49:48 +0000

i think more ‘normal people’, aka not red head hicks, would consider this more autistic that artistic. any car/motorbike sounds better than that and burns rubber way better :S i mean seriously!! he like the sound of _little_ engines. he didnât even make it _sound_ like a big one :O this belongs on the_daily_wtf not hack_a_day.
whereâs the links to the knowledge we so adore? thatâs what people come here for. not this err… well ‘art’ is the only thing that has a vague enough description to let this slide in really!!!
ps maybe the poster meant to link to the person who did the etching on the chainsaw not this err…??? as a ‘visual indulgence designer’ and ‘object manipulation and creation specilest’ i refuse to be associated with this ‘art’ thing. both things that i do take ’skill’ and ‘knowledge’.

By: Cazna

Cazna — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:59:21 +0000

I agree with the above comments. I loved the old hack a day where you could come in once a day and find something that you may want to build yourself. Either documented hacks or just some hack to provide inspiration for your own hack are both great. This “hack” on the other hand is nothing but lame modern art, reminds me of the “hack” Homer Simpson did on that DIY BBQ making it a work of art.

By: kyle

kyle — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:57:37 +0000

I liked coming here for 1-2 hacks a day. This new “spam 10 pieces of crap” ideal is annoying and is now making me not waste my time here any longer. We gave you 2 weeks to fix this and learn but you havent listened to your readers so GG noobs.

By: edd

edd — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:31:34 +0000

I have to agree with twistedsymphony on both points here, I think his rules would be the perfect submissions for hackaday. I too have submitted projects in the past, only to find them not posted at all or posted one or two months later saying it was tipped by someone else. Admittedly I see what you are trying to do with loads of writers and spreading the work and all, but please at least keep the same quality as older posts and maybe even some decent documentation on the projects, I was disappointed when I didn’t find any for the hardware music posts when they first appeared..

By: killasmurf

killasmurf — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:18:40 +0000

REMINDER:
“hack a day serves up a fresh hack each day, every day from around the web and a special how-to hack each week.”

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:27:49 +0000

Anyone that’s claiming thing isn’t art should provide us with their own definition of art (which will be wrong, unless someone was appointed supreme dictator of the English language and could change the meanings of words at will).

By: Adam Ziegler

Adam Ziegler — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:36:09 +0000

Like twistedsymphony #16 I too have submitted a project or two without any result… which I was ok with, but at least it was a project / process / hack. I am ok with change and modification… but I miss the way the site used to be, and I am not so sure that the changes we have created a better site. Just my opinion.

By: twistedsymphony

twistedsymphony — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:54:25 +0000

I'm a car guy and seeing the title of "burnout machine" my first thought was "cool" it looked kind of interesting from the picture... but then yep 2 wasted minutes of a weak motor that couldn't even spin trailer tires let alone make the "muscle car" sounds he was going for.

this project fails on so many levels.

As for hack-a-day in general I agree with the other comments, I'd like to see some digression with the articles maybe a set of rules for selection.
1. it needs to be something thats a one off creation and not some corporate prototype (ie: no showing off cellphone prototypes or garbage like that, exceptions would be open source projects)
2. it needs to have documentation so that we the readers could re-produce the device ourselves or at very least learn something new

THATS IT... I think if you just follow those two rules people would be happy. If I want to read about Tech Litigations I'll go to Slashdot if I want to see lame performance artists revving lawn mowers I'll go somewhere else.

I stopped submitting articles months ago since none of what I was submitting was getting posted... I'll admit some of them weren't the most interesting hacks but the where hacks with documentation...

By: gerrard lewis

gerrard lewis — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:53:23 +0000

FAIL