Don Lancaster: energy and small business

April 14, 2007 6:15 AM

Don Lancaster: energy and small businessLancaster wrote in 'Nuts and Volts', wrote 'The Incredible Secret Money Machine', and has a website that ranges from small business to hydrogen economy to ebay to magic sinewaves. This is the link to his current blog, but take a look at his archived works. His writings on avoiding filing for patents are particularly thought-provoking and perhaps inspirational.
posted by dragonsi55 (7 comments total)

Interesting. He's published a number of books on electrical engineering, and his website has a real scientific-notebook feel.
posted by acro at 7:06 AM on April 14, 2007

Don's writings on the many and varied free-energy conspiracies are a constant source of joy to me. Plus, he is a perennial advocate of PostScript as a programming language. And he sells tons of stuff on eBay. Quite the renaissance nerd.
posted by scruss at 7:24 AM on April 14, 2007

April 3, 2007

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posted by sourwookie at 7:35 AM on April 14, 2007

browsing the site, he built a TV-Typewriter that's at the California Computer Museum.
posted by acro at 8:41 AM on April 14, 2007

Don Lancaster's books and articles were part of my self-education in electronics in the 70's. I still have and use a copy of the CMOS cookbook.

He was hacking before hacking was cool...
posted by Artful Codger at 3:19 PM on April 14, 2007

Thanks for posting this to the blue, dragonsi55.

Check out his take on patents and patent busting.
posted by Tacodog at 3:29 PM on April 14, 2007

from his site:

"thanks to you MetaFilter folks for giving us an all time
record day for visits and downloads."
posted by dragonsi55 at 7:19 AM on April 28, 2007