1. Eliminate going to the website, downloading and unpacking the install on my local computer, then uploading it to the server

I remembered an article on Hackaday called WordPress 2.7 upgrade in one line.  I read through the article and liked the curl method much better than the wget approach I was going to use,  plus this used the rm command to remove a directory, which led me to come up with the final touch of deleting the wp-config-sample.php file in order to use the web based tool to create a new one.

So taking from the Chris Finke’s Twitter post I modified it to suit my One Minute WordPress Installation:

Open the Terminal and ssh into your server:

ssh username yourserver.com

then type:

curl http://wordpress.org/latest.zip -o "wp.zip" && unzip wp.zip && rm -rf ./wordpress/wp-config-sample.php

This will
download and unpack the latest WordPress release, then delete the
wp-config-sample.php so we can use the web-based creator later.

O.K., so I solved the big issue, which eliminated my local computer from the equation and allowed me to download and unpack straight to the server.  This shaved a huge chuck on time that was wasted on redundancy.  I am still working on a solution so you can use a php script on your server to create the mysql database without needing to log in to your host’s webpanel.  I’ll update the site oneminutewordpress.com as soon as I finish up on that side of things, but for now you can revel in the glory of a one minute manual WordPress Install.  Here’s a link to

andthe step by step instructions.

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This is a Arduino Nano Shield Prototype I made for a Parallax Accelerometer.

Here we have a fairly standard rear bike rack. We need to bent the front half out of the way in
order to fit on the front of the bike.

I bent the metal with my knee. You could use a vise, its probably a lot easier.

It should look something like this–>

The next thing I needed was to construct a mount for the top. I went to Home Depot and bought some Aluminum bar stock. Then I hand bent the bar into shape:

Next I mounted the bar stock to the rack, and then to the stem of the bicycle.

This is the mount that I used. I was from a motorcycle bar end mirror.

I would suggest using

something a little easier to find.

This could be an option in order to hang them from your handlebars instead of the stem. Mc Master Catalog Page #1474

The skewer for the bike is now going to go through the rack and wheel.

That’s All Folks, not much to it. Now go on out there and enjoy the rack!

New toys

A partnership with Because We Can to produce a interactive coffee table that is capable of displaying millions of colors.

Materials: 3/8 acrylic, FSC Cert. Europly, 25 BlinkMs, Arduino Platform, IDC Connectors. (All electronics RoHS compliant)

This is a prototype of an Interactive Coffee Table from Coactlab.com and becausewecan.org The electronics are done by Coactlab and the furniture by Because We Can.

The table seen below will ship with distance sensors to provide input for selecting modes and defining colors on the table.

The table will be available for sale, along with another side table, through Because We Can when we get in the next shipment of BlinkMs sometime in May!

Here’s the table at IDEO Quickie called Creative Play

This is an in-house prototype of the Kelvin Slider LED Lamp.

Materials: acrylic, birch veneer, europly, and steel hardware. Laser-etched.

This was done as an in-house project for a future production model. This prototype was being worked on for the IDEO quickie event on March 26, 2008

This particular lamp features both a cool and warm white Lamina Ceramics LED.

The lamp form is made from a piece of acrylic etched with a a wood pattern using a CO2 laser.

The etching is then back painted in order for the pattern to “pop” through the clear acrylic layer.

The form is then heated in order to be bent into shape.

This is an in-house prototype of a rear bike fender.

Materials: acrylic, birch veneer, aluminum, and steel hardware.

Here it is in all its prototyped glory. The fender hardware is for mounting into a back brake mount. The mount still needs a little tweaking to make it fit properly.

This is a close up of the grain through the acrylic layer.

A little bit of detail as to the angle of the fender.

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