Eco-Roadtrip! Milwaukee, Albany NY, Seven Springs PA and back

September 14, 2012

Hi Everyone, I’m going to be a speaker at the Mother Earth News Fair in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania on September 21-23, 2012. My wife has relatives in NY State, so we are going to attempt a ROAD-TRIP with a Two-Year-Old! We’ll be traveling from Milwaukee to Schenectady, NY, spend a few days there, showing the Little Girl […]

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Jack Daniels / Boo Hoo!

September 13, 2012

Well, the bad news is that the DIY Hybrid Pickup Truck Project is NOT a finalist in the Jack Daniels Independence project. BUT! The up-side is this project was never dependent on some long-shot of winning some money in a contest. No sir-ee-bob! This project is happening….. It would just be a little easier with […]

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Jack Daniels Independence Project Entry

August 29, 2012

As you may have noticed, I’m becoming a big fan of on-line creative building competitions, especially through Instructables.com. Right now, they have one heck-of-a contest going on, sponsored by Jack Daniels. The whole idea is that you create a 60 second video explaining your dream of Independence, whether that be a business plan or just […]

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DIY Hybrid Pickup Truck

August 13, 2012

For a while, I’ve had an idea rattling around in my head…. A couple years back, I picked up an old Mercedes 240D as a parts car, to use the engine to convert my pickup truck to diesel. I can get 30 MPG in my Chevy S10 on gas, so I figure I should be […]

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Politicians, Flowers, and Motorcycles

August 11, 2012

Today is Saturday, and summer Saturday mornings means the Farmers’ Market. While I am not much of a morning person, and was working late last night, once I woke up, I remembered that our friends at Evolution Marketing were going to be showing off their new Nissan Leaf at the market today. So, I thought […]

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Green Drive Expo – Madison, WI

July 22, 2012

Thanks to everybody who came out and said hello this weekend at the Green Drive Expo in Madison Wisconsin! We had lots of fun showing off my electric motorcycle, the Solar-Power Wheels, and Thomas’ Electric Leopard car. It felt like the power-wheels was the sleeper hit of the show. Lots of families were checking it […]

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Solar-Powered Power Wheels

July 22, 2012

My little girl just keeps getting bigger, and she’s almost the right size for a Power Wheels ride on toy. A while back I got one for free – it didn’t have a battery or charger, so it didn’t run. I also had a Harbor Freight 45-watt solar panel kit. It dawned on me that […]

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LED work on Open Revolt controller case

July 19, 2012

Yesterday, I made it down to the Milwaukee Makerspace to do a little more work on the clear case for my Open Revolt electric car motor controller. I grabbed a couple of scrap LEDs and starting experimenting to see what would work to attach them to another piece of plastic. How about laser-cutting a hole […]

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Mother Earth Fair Ticket Discount

July 11, 2012

If you are planning to go to the Mother Earth News Fair in Pennsylvania in September, order your tickets NOW! They have a secret special promotion for getting a 3-Day Pass, bumper sticker, and coupon for %25 off anything in their bookstore, for only 10 bucks! https://www.motherearthnews.com/order/order.aspx?promocode=MMEEMC78 This special promotion only runs through July 16th, […]

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Electric ATV

July 11, 2012

Just yesterday, I announced how I want to give away 100 copies of DIY Electric Vehicle instructional DVDs to “seed” programs for schools. Already, I have gotten a number of requests for videos that I have mailed out. With one of them was a message saying “Look what we have already done” and a link […]

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