Happy New Years !

Hope everyone has a blast for the New Years!

 MLS is throwing the big ball bash tomorrow night and I am getting ready but like normal something shows up to throw me off from my task and get me all fired up about building something.

Bear from All Power Labs in Berkeley, CA decided it would be perfect to push in to my shop the 500 watt PEM Hydrogen Fuel Cell for my next project during my party set up...

And like normal the party planning and set up stopped.... because I had to get my hands dirty and check this thing out.

Bear wants to be a model for Sears so bad! 

Its a really cool set up made in the early 2000s by a company called Avista Labs, I don't know a ton about it yet and I will be doing some research about it but I do have some fuel cell experience and I think this is going to make a cool electric race bike project. I need to decided should it use 36 inch wheels or 29 inch , Coker wheels or Velocity wheels, that is the question ????

12 PEM Cells all packed in to a crazy brain of controllers

Either way - Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to all - Its been a good time in 2011 and 2012 is looking very bright already ! 

100,000 people and counting.....

First thing .....

Thanks to the readers for making MLS a fun project for me and being interested enough to come around and check it out. For a lot of people 100k people viewing my blog doesn't seem like a lot of people but when your from a small town in Minnesota with population of only a few thousand people, 100k seems like a lot! 

well for you electronic nerds, a 100k resistor, kinda like the amount of page hits but not really.

Its getting close to Xmas as well so happy holidays to everyone and that means my normal quick escape back to Minnesota to make me realize how cold the earth can be for 5+ months of the year.

It was the Fwod' girls bicycle club's Sadie Hawking bike ride.

Classic style for Sadie Hawking dance or ride, 

the lady asks out the dude so, 

I got asked on the ride by Sanja and had a blast riding Oakland and Alameda. 

Oh Boy....

One project at a time, but this one ended up in my hand 

and I couldn't say NO

Hydrogen Fuel cells all ready to go...!!!!!

Did someone say Futuristic BoardTracker from 2050?

Expect some madness no one has ever seen with the

 titanium sheet metal.

I started drawing it in Solidworks... Electric 36ers front and rear ??

You are going to have to nail bite for a while on this one...