http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNcDZDxMygg While on our southwest tour, we were sure to make some time to go visit [Mikey Sklar]. He's been a friend of hackaday for a long time, both as a writer and as someone who sends us cool projects. As you may have noticed from some of the posts we've done on his projects, [Mikey] lives in the middle of the desert and is attempting to lead a fairly self … [Read more...]
Mikey Sklar on The Daily Show
August 24, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Yesterday's The Daily Show (8-23-06) had a segment featuring friend of Hack-A-Day Mikey Sklar. You probably remember his projects: Making RFID proof pockets, embedding an RFID chip in his hand, and his current project the high-lighter, a trampoline controlled flame thrower. Mikey is on the road to Burning Man right now so he hasn't seen the 2 minutes they got out of the 8.5 hours of filming. It … [Read more...]
Open source capactive charger resurrects an electric skateboard
November 30, 2012 By 21 Comments
Here's [Mikey Sklar] posing on his new electric skateboard. Well, it's new to him at any rate. He bought it used on eBay for $250. That may not sound like much of a deal, but these will run more like $800 retail. The savings comes because the thing would no longer charge. But it took him just an hour and a half with his capacitive charger to resurrect the flat lithium cells. The first thing he … [Read more...]
Announcing: International Hack Day, August 11th.
August 11, 2012 By 35 Comments
There is no single and definitive definition of what hacking is. We all have different versions of similar ideas in our head, but depending on your background and area of enthusiasm, hacking means something different. While dictionary.com has many definitions of the word itself, none seem to cover what we see on a daily basis. We set out to define "hacking" ourselves. We tossed around words … [Read more...]
Hackaday southwest tour
July 26, 2012 By 20 Comments
Earlier this summer, I took a trip through the southeast of the country. On this trip I was able to visit several hackerspaces and meet some really great people. We started at Squidfoo in Springfield Missouri. Then Moved on to Makers Local 256 in Huntsville Alabama. After that we saw 7hills hackerspace in Rome Georgia as well as Freeside hackerspace in Atlanta Georgia. The final leg of the trip … [Read more...]
Geeks living off the grid are hard on batteries
May 19, 2012 By 32 Comments
Many of you will remember [Mikey Sklar] from the multitude of times he's been on hackaday. What you may not have noticed is that he is an ubergeek, living off the grid. He has Solar PV battery bank, three electric vehicles, a shipping container loaded with battery powered tools and a small army of iRobot Roomba's for cleaning. Getting the maximum lifetime out of a battery by removing sulfation is … [Read more...]
Putting QR codes in copper
April 12, 2012 By 18 Comments
Former Hackaday contributor [mikeysklar] has been trying to etch a QR code into a sheet of copper. Although his phone can't read the CuR codes he's made so far, he's still made an impressive piece of milled copper. The biggest problem [mikey] ran into is getting Inkscape to generate proper cnc tool paths instead of just tracing a bitmap image. He's got the CNC part of his build under control, … [Read more...]
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