MITERS

An update, long overdue…
So much has happened in the past year, and yet I’ve posted nothing!!  How could this be?  Clearly Blind-Lead needs a new PR officer — please do inquire if interested!!! Okay, to begin with, we’ve had two major moves.  First, … Continue reading →...

Electric Vehicle Part II: Frame Built
So the frame of the vehicle when last discussed was a highly non-structural frame with a seat some wheels and a motor. This is it now:A much more structural thingy with a base board and supports and hot damn it even has a chain to transfer power. This thing is almost usable. All of the mak...

Fatigue: a study of flexures in a scooter
Introducing, Fatigue, my preemptively-named flexure-based scooter. You can see how a flexure is perfect for the rear brake, which has quite limited travel. Luckily, it also doesn’t see to many extreme forces. It is made […]...

Flying Quadrotors: What I’ve Been Up To Lately
Two videos I made with Bryan Newbold: Quad Flyover of toorcamp 2012 (unedited) from bryan newbold on Vimeo. Quads with Star Redux from bryan newbold on Vimeo.

fcpx and external hard drives on a mac; or, film editing at MIT: project dx/dt
I'm working on documentary on how sexual violations have affected the MIT community (https://sites.google.com/site/projectdxdt/). More about it someday (edit: you can read my co-producer Chacha Durazo's blog post on it here: http://blog.chachadurazo.com/2013/05/project-dxdt.html). But the scree...

Operation: Bad Timing and Mikuvan Adventures
I think my new life mission is to collect the 3 legendary birds derpy Japanese 80s vans. Here’s an interesting review of the 3 competing Japanese marques in the November 1987 issue of Popular Science! As an enthusiast of things which go quicker than they need to, I’m glad to see the Mits...

NAB 2013: Where are the gyros? / New video editing software.
A couple weeks ago I was at the NAB Show with Freefly for the MōVI launch, the first product I've helped work on at the new job. That meant spending a lot of time doing the chicken head dance and explaining to people that there aren't actually spinning flywheel gyros on things anymore...It's a came...

Powerlifting!
It's like overclocking but better: every chip [human] has a different limit! Also makes for a great stress reliever. I'm also seriously considering joining MIT's powerlifting team, because according to stats on MIT's powerlifting team (I dream of steel), I'm pretty close to benching competitively (...

Running wires without drilling holes
Sadly, my project wasn't quite as magical as that sounds. A better title probably would be, "running wires without drilling MORE holes." I'm currently living in a rented house. As with most (all?) rented houses, I can't run around...

New Blog
Hey folks, This blog is no longer active. If you still want to see what I’m up to head over to dlukeomalley.com. See you there! - Luke...

Electric Razor: Construction
So I kind of never made a post on the machining and construction of the rest of the scooter (other than the motor), even though it came (chronologically) before the motor testing. Instead of making a bunch of separate posts, I am just going to dump it all here in one post. The scooter body […]...

TalonBaby + Jordan Fashion Shoot
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL...