Grindelwald Sights July 5th 2012 – Grindelwald, Switzerland – Canon 5D Mark III I’m traveling through Switzerland via Unicycle. The “gang” doing this Swiss Uni Tour consists of myself, Nathan Hoover and Scott Wilton all... [read more]

My friend Justin up in Vancouver brought this invention down for the Maker Faire a month or so ago. He custom made a frame and attached a CVT NuVinci hub to the unicycle. Awesome. Video... [read more]

I now have a J1772 EVSE Charging Station at home. My friend Ken Adelman gave me an old Avcon charger that he had saved from the dumpster. I bought a J1772 plug from tucsonev.com and... [read more]

I got a cheap “go pro” like camera from online not too long ago. My friend Jason was getting one and said I should get one too (so I did!). Here it is hacked onto... [read more]

Over 10 years ago my friend Rob started a 20 mile unicycle ride throughout Santa Cruz. It starts down by the beach Boardwalk, rides up to UCSC campus, does some mild off road trails through... [read more]

Last weekend my car suddenly shut off all power while driving home. It happened again this morning right as I was going to drive away. I could jiggle the key and it would come back... [read more]

The electric bug has an inertia switch in the case of an accident. It looks like this: It is designed to cut the 12v system to the rear of my car, which turns off the... [read more]

The bug’s motor runs pretty hot on hot days. You can’t keep your hand on it for more than a brief instant. I have measured the temperature with an infrared thermometer, but of course, right... [read more]

…well, problems come in pairs. I changed my front brake pads about about 8600 miles; they wore away quickly! I didn’t change the rear, as they weren’t as bad as the front. I checked the... [read more]

An update to the last post: The bug is running again! George, from Netgain motors, suggested seeing if the motor had excessive vibration. When I ran it at 12volts it seemed to hum pretty fine,... [read more]

The Bug has over 15,000 pure electric miles on it! The past ~14,000 have been relatively painless. I’ve had to do a few tweaks along the way, but nothing major. Unfortunately, that changed last friday.... [read more]

Proteas I sure love these flowers. They are amazing. Taken at UCSC Arboretum, April 22, 2012. Canon 5D Mark III.

South African Flower UCSC

Pink + Boka 4/22/2012 – Santa Cruz – taken with Canon 5D Mark III

Spider 4/22/2012 – UCSC Arboretum, Santa Cruz, CA. Taken with Canon 5D Mark III Crop of the spider

More Flowers 4/8/2012 – Corte Madera – taken with Canon 5D Mark III

I have nearly 15,000 miles on my little electric car. I haven’t had to do much maintenance lately; the car has been running pretty well. I did a check on the front brake pads; the... [read more]

Nice license plate!

Some footage from playing around with my 5D.

Small Flowers, Big Macro 4/8/2012 – Corte Madera – take with Canon 5D Mark III

Asparagus 4/8/2012 – Corte Madera – taken with Canon 5D Mark III

I worked with some of the fine folks over at the Electric Auto Association (EAA) to do an article on my bug for their newsletter. It came out awesome! I gave the editor a lot... [read more]

Le Gentlemens Choice March 2012. Montreal, Canada.Even the strip clubs have cool wall murals.

Tilly Rex 3/18/12 – Oakland CA at the Vespertine Circus. My girlfriend.

Vespertine Circus – One Minute Sam. 3/17/2012 – Oakland, California

The Bean March 2012 – HDR from three exposures

Here’s a video of me making my second cyr wheel (aka: roue cyr or simple wheel). I’m using a Hossfeld bender, and it is a very manual and slow process!

I went to Chicago last weekend for the “Big Wheel Weekend” where I took some Cyr wheel workshops. There were two great instructors there: Paul Perreault and Eric Deschenes (from the Montreal circus school). .... [read more]

I’m working on 360 wheel spins, where the wheel is spun around your body. Getting a few!

More progress. This is putting a few of the skills I know together all at once. Currently (Feb 28), I’m just starting to get 180 wheel spins down. I’ve also done a good 360 wheel... [read more]

Step 1: figure out what size it needs to be. Here’s my Cyr Wheel sketch for my size. I’m 5’6″, and if I add about a fist height (1.5″ to 2″), that gives me 68″... [read more]