Electric Skateboard

Five years ago, I bought this electric 3-wheel skateboard. It was a no-name brand that I bought for under a hundred bucks, new and shipped. I didn't have high hopes for it. Well, it turned out to be a great purchase and a very well designed and made machine, especially for the price. It's a blast to ride, feels kind of like a snowboard. It takes a couple of hours to charge, and runs for 15 minutes. Throttle is a single step button in the back, and takes some time to get use to controlling speed on it. It can go faster than I'm showing on the video, I didn't want to go full out speed with the little guy on board.

I do not remember where I got it from, and a quick search online, I found this to be the closest from amazon. Mine doesn't have the scooter handle, but it does have a threaded hole in the front where the post goes. The rest of it looks about the same. Anyway, had a great time riding with my son today, and posted up this video. I sometimes pull him on a wagon too, and pretend that we're a train. Fun times.

Time-Laps playing with my son

Ahhh the joy of fatherhood :) I decided to take a little time-laps video this morning, playing with my son at our favorite games.... trains, dinosaurs, and wrestling. This is what life is all about... exhaustion. Taken with iMotion HD on iphone4.

MakerBot, Bre Pettis on Colbert Report

Years ago, Bre Pettis interviewed me for Make Magazine Podcast. It was really the first time that someone wanted to video interview me about my steam powered robots. Since then, he had blogged many of my contraptions over the years. Now Bre is behind MakerBot, pioneering in open source 3D Printing. Last night made it on the Colbert Report. Congratulations on your success Bre & the Makerbot team!

For more info about MakerBot:  http://www.makerbot.com/

Hey I know that guy.... really!.... before he was famous.... really!