Garden City, Kansas, USA - Home to the largest zoological facility in Kansas, Garden City is known for its depiction in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.The croplands surrounding the city are irrigated by a vast underground aquifer, creating bands of bright red healthy vegetation that dot the image.

Synplant takes a unique approach to creating sound with software synthesizers - Each patch starts as a 'seed' that sprouts branches towards parameters you choose. Decide you don't like a certain aspect of the voice? - just clip off the branch. Or if you like it a whole bunch, replant it as its own seed. 3-week demo available on their site - SonicCharge Synplant

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Singing Plants

This hockey playing robot is a prototype for a more expressive one no doubt, but we here at Make also like to publish projects that aren't quite finished in order to show the process. This bot detects the movement of the ball and then takes a swipe at it. Next up, Gretsky no doubt!

via RobotGRRL

Sebastian walks you through the process for creating sample kits for use with the Little Sound DJ sequencer cartridge on Gameboy. The small amount of memory you have to work with makes this an interesting process in its own right -

Now, in my opinion there are three places to look for space when choosing where to crop you samples. You may notice that before the initial attack portion of your sample, there may be small amount of silence or almost silence. You can delete this, of course. Not only will this give you more time, but your depending on the length that you delete from the start, your samples may sound more "in time" with the rest of LSDJ (because the sound will be starting on the beat).

This tail-pipe hack is meant to make some noise every time the vehicle (in this case a motorcycle) spits out enough carbon monoxide that could be harmful to the environment. Since this might end up getting you into an accident, so we don't condone this type of modification, still it's kind of nice to hear the sound of trumpets rather than the usual gas guzzling motor sounds your bike normally spits out.

via Wrong Distance

If you really want to understand electric circuit theory, eventually you will need to come to terms with Ohm's Law. So how can you get the concept across that I=V/R? Will your students be able to figure out that V=I/R or that R=V/I, or that all three of these equations are pretty much the same? How can they integrate these theories with their changing letter designations so they can be used in real life applications? How about throwing some throwies at them?

Many instructional materials for learning to work with electricity and circuits are based on 9 volt batteries. Often they start by having the experimenter place a resistor in series with the LED to reduce current flow, save on battery life and keep the LED from getting fried. Having to use a resistor at such an early stage of learning circuits introduces too much theory at the beginning. 9 volt batteries are also either moderately or unreasonably expensive.

There are many online resources for studying electricity and circuits. I particularly like one from Paul Falstad, which shows visuals for the current flow and direction. You can use his sample circuits, and modify them as well. He has many other visualizations of various math and physics concepts on his site.

Some of the ideas that you can pursue by using throwies are: How long will a throwie stay lit? If you add a second, third, or dozen LEDs in parallel to the 3volt battery, how will that affect the run time of the circuit? If you wire the same number of LEDs in series to the battery, how will that affect the duration of the life of the battery? If you add other components to the circuit, like, resistors, capacitors, transistors or photo resistors, how will the circuit behave? How do you use a multimeter to determine voltage, resistance, amperage, polarity and more?

Another reason to look to throwies is expense. If you take a look at the picture at the top of this post, from Make: Volume 6, page 116, you can find sources and prices for all the parts you need. LEDs are pretty cheap now. The batteries are reasonably priced as well, the magnets will cost some. You should be able to outfit a class full of throwie making supplies for relatively short money, but most of these parts can be harvested out of junk. LEDs are in most of the electronics that we throw out every day. Batteries are in every computer heading for the loading dock, and inside every hard drive is at least a couple of good high strength rare earth magnets. The older electronics are actually better for scavenging than a lot of the new stuff, since the parts were bigger and assembled with more traditional fasteners. If you are going to desolder components, you will need at least a soldering iron and some desoldering braid to go with your safety glasses.

One possible pitfall for this project is the magnets. They are definitely a source of potential mayhem in the hands of the average teenager. Certainly there are some ways to modify the project to minimize the chaos. Sittees? Stickies? Floaties?

Have you taught electricity with throwies or other simple materials? If you give it a try, take some pictures, video or make a posting to the Make Flickr Pool. Add some links to the descriptions. Add some comments to this post with more ideas on great ways to get students excited about learning electricity!

Are there other articles in Make or Craft that you think work well in the classroom or other learning environment? Post your ideas in the comments.

Even though they willingly offered me the old toy for dissection, nothing prepares them for the cruel reality that this once loved doll was...well, just a toy. Underneath the silicone skin is a bunch of plastic, speakers, wires, and motors, all waiting for me to hack apart and use in another project. It's a Makers gold mine!

My youngest daughter asked, "Why did her face fall off?" I just smiled and said, "Daddy is making something for work." She accepted my answer and happily ran off. I dodged that bullet! My oldest daughter was obviously fascinated by the inner workings of the doll. YES! She's hooked...another Maker is born!

Do you have any funny moments when you were building something? Post them in the comments below. Thanks!

My laptop needs to be slightly elevated to cool it down, so here is a laptop cooler (unfortunately, not strong enough to be made into a stand) It even runs on USB power! All I need to plug it into a spare USB port. I stripped this USB plug form the masses of USB extenders that Dick Smith ship with their flash drives (that's that black USB plug)

More about the DIY: Cardboard laptop cooler

I managed to put together a wireless accelerometer the other night using my two new XBees, an Arduino XBee shield, an XBee Explorer USB, an ADXL330, and some Python. I struggled a bit with some of it, so here's what I learned.

More about XBee & Arduino wireless accelerometer

In the Maker Shed:


Arduino Mini Board, fully assembled

How to Build With Grid Beam is a guide to a clever and flexible system of construction for a wide range of home-built projects, from storage units to work spaces to furniture, vehicles, and structures. The system relies on the use of “sticks” or beams of square tube steel or aluminum or wood with holes placed at regular intervals along the length of each stick. Using lag bolts or other fasteners, these sticks can be assembled quickly and easily into structures that are quite robust and easily adapted and reconfigured. And when you are finished with a project, you simply disassemble the project and use the components for something else. By using adapters and add-ons, most of which can be found in hardware stores, industrial supply houses, or fabricated in even a modestly-equipped shop, the system can be expanded to encompass a staggering array of applications.

treasure stolen gold
low the sun and busy bees
prepare for winter

We collected honey from our two backyard hives this fall and I've finally finished jarring it. The new hive, split from last year's hive, produced over 20 pounds of honey. This is more than our first hive produced last year, but the older hive was not to be outdone.

Queen Ann, in the second year of her reign, ran a very productive operation. Her daughters produced some of the lightest, most delightful honey I've ever had. The water content is so low that it pours out like a sheet of glass, folding at the bottom like you might expect from taffy.

From Ann's hive, we collected 100 pounds of honey, making the grand total 120 pounds between the two hives. This is the part we harvested. We leave enough behind for the bees to survive on during the long Minnesota winter, which amounts to another 80-100 pounds.

What's incredible is that all of this honey is produced from the flowers, trees, and vegetable gardens within a 2-3 mile radius of the hives. Two years ago, before I began this hobby, I wouldn't have thought this was possible in the city.

If you're interested in starting a backyard hive next spring, this is what you can look forward to. The real challenge of this urban agricultural experiment is to figure out what to do with the harvest.

Previously
Backyard beekeeping - splitting a hive

The Arkansas Arts Center is looking for submissions to their annual Toys Designed by Artists exhibition. It's their 36th year!

Lucas and his dad enjoy making stuff. In this video Brad interviews the young Tinkerer about the spiffy new speakers they made and rigged up to their stereo.

This was a great project - we followed the plans at http://makezine.com/12/diymusic_plate/ but didn't have the right wire, magnets, or plates. Instead we used 30 ga wire and magnets from RS and a variety of cups, plates, and disposable ware and compared how they all worked. They ALL worked well. This is one bulletproof project.

Making speakers is a really empowering thing. It can be as easy as wrapping some wire around a plastic cup, hooking it up to speaker terminals and listening in. Beyond that, you and your collaborators can find yourselves learning about crafting speaker enclosures, magnetism, electromagnets, repairing busted cones, and so much more. What have you done with magnet wire recently? Have you tried out projects from Make Magazine? If you have a tale to tell of the build, successful or 'learning experience', then post in the comments and add pictures and video to the Make Flickr pool.

Thomas Edison first experimented with sound recording by using paraffin paper, metal cylinders wrapped in tin foil, and then eventually settled on wax cylinders. As the story goes, the first thing to ever be successfully recorded and played back was Edison reciting "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Gakken's phonograph kit lets you recreate a model of how Edison first experimented with sound recording and playback, replacing the wax cylinder with regular plastic cups.

How does it sound? Here's a video, yours truly, recording a brisk rendition of "I've Been Working on the Railroad":

This is certainly no mp3 player, but that's what is so great. It's eerily low-fi and nostalgic; it makes your voice sound like it's one hundred years old. You can hear and see the medium speak, and that is what makes this kit so much fun! Clear some space next to your music collection: You might never throw away a plastic cup again.

View the Gakken Phonograph Kit in the Maker Shed.

Here's a follow-up to my backyard coffee roasting post. All around great makers Mikey Sklar and Wendy Jehanara Tremayne made this video showing how to roast coffee with an airpopper. It doesn't get any easier than this! They used an unmodified West Bend Poppery II, which is a somewhat legendary machine in home roasting circles. With some luck you can pick one up for a few bucks at a yard sale, or get one on Ebay for around $30.

The Poppery II is 1000W and has its air holes in the sides of the cylinder, not the bottom, which improves circulation. This method is called "fluid bed air roasting". Since the beans are all flying around in a vortex being heated from all sides they roast much more evenly than the stirred pot method I use.

For Brooklyn real-estate agent Maria Mackin, the obsession started five years ago, on a trip to Pennsylvania Amish country. She, her husband and three children—now 17, 13 and 11—sat down for brunch at a local bed-and-breakfast, and suddenly the chef realized she'd run out of eggs. "She said, 'Oh goodness! I'll have to go out to the garden and get some more'," Mackin recalls. "She cooked them up and they were delicious." Mackin and her husband, Declan Walsh, looked at each other, and it didn't take long for the idea to register: Could we have chickens too? They finished their brunch and convinced the bed-and-breakfast owner, a Mennonite celery farmer, to sell them four chickens. They packed them in a little nest in the back of their Plymouth Voyager minivan and headed back to Brooklyn.

(Images of Austin's Edible Estate via fritzhaeg.com)

Check out Fritz Haeg's presentation from his Austin visit here for great visuals of the difference between lawns and edible estates.

Also check out this Mother Earth News article on edible ground cover and the "Food Not Lawns" groups popping up (Iowa City here, and San Diego here)

And, please comment if you've transformed your lawn into something more productive than xeriscaping and less wasteful than water-hungry grass!

Hacked Gadgets ran a contest to try and find the awesomest electronics workbench in all of Geekdom. They got some pretty sweet entries, but the winner was Lorne Wilkins. Not only is his set-up top-drawer, he goes into detail describing parts of it, including some homebrewed tools, like the PCB holder made from an old printer tractor feed mechanism (15 in the photo).

Hacked Gadgets Workbench Contest Winner
All the contest entries

Plan-K-Troniks posted a schematic of a nice little 8-step sequencer for use with the Gakken Analog Synthesizer kit. Their description is in Japanese, but not such a problem if your familiar with the language of electronics - MICRO ANALOG SEQUENCER FOR SX-150

SX-150 Analog Synthesizer Kit

AJTurley lives out many a Kraftwerk fan's fantasy as he uses his scientific calculator as a MIDI controller by way of a Basic Stamp board -

This is a demo of a project I built so that I could use my HP 48 to play a MIDI keyboard. The calculator is running a program that sends data to a Parallax Stamp Basic microcontroller over the built-in serial port whenever I press a button. The microcontroller is running software that converts the message from the calculator into a MIDI noteon or noteoff message that is then sent to the keyboard. This is a response to a createdigitalmusic.com poll in which a (small) number of users said they wanted the site to cover more calculator music.

Maker Media grand Pooh-Bah Dale Dougherty is the latest guest blogger on Boing Boing. Dale has one of the most captivating and restless intellects I know, so it's really exciting to see him given free range to talk about whatever is on his mind. Some of his postings thus far:

Merrill Lynch Needs a Dressing Down
Merrill Lynch is bullish on snobbery and status. These snobs, wearing more expensive suits, consorted to run their company into the ground. Now they look down on the company that rescued them and the people who work there as not being worthy, not sharing their own high status. It's another sign that failure will not humble Wall Street or cause them to change their ways. It's also a bad sign for Bank of America of the difficulty of getting these dandies to do an honest day's work...

Beach Dreams
I saw a nostalgic photo in the bathroom of a NY City restaurant recently, a picture of the beach at Coney Island and the ocean was absolutely filled with people from where the water met the shore to as far out as people could stand. It was such a great picture that could be interpreted two different ways: what an awful thing to go to a crowded beach OR what an amazing time you'd have in the middle of all those people enjoying the day of the beach. Think of its opposite -- the island beach with white sand and nothing but you and nature, the kind of photos you find in "Travel and Leisure" magazine. It's another setting that could be seen and experienced two different ways -- I've found paradise because I can lie on this beautiful beach or, an hour later, I'm bored because there's nobody here and nothing to do. One test is to ask yourself what you'd have done as a kid. The kid has to prefer the crowded beach with lots going on...

Tinker in a Collective Shop
Check out Daniel B. Smith's article on Lewis Hyde in the New York Times Magazine: "What is Art For? Hyde is the author of "The Gift", an influential book exploring the idea of gift economies. It's a book that I have meant to read. Hyde seems to be a practical man as well as a man of ideas. He wrote an essay "Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking" because he was reading Berryman's poems while working in a hospital's drunk ward and noticed the same kind of delusional language he found in the poetry...

Hard Drives' Dying Moans
From a repair shop comes a collection of the sounds of hard drives failing. Their last words, their dying moans...

Linsey Pollak drills out a carrot and turns it into a clarinet and plays it, live looping with a Boss RC20 to record 3 layers....from his solo show "Making Jam"

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Handlebars as wind instrument

All that said, he did have one awesome move - the tornado punch!

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• List of problems solved by MacGyver.
• MacGyver episodes.
• MacGyver action figure.

Tricked-out hexapod robots, built by Austrian technical school students, in a dance competition.

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Sparkfun Electronics raised a pretty penny for some Austin nonprofits:

The soldering workshop was a huge hit! We accepted donations for the soldering kits we gave away to students of the workshop. We were able to raise $884 for Austin non-profits Angelheart Children's Shelter and The Robot Group! Thanks goes to everyone who came and checked out our booth and our soldering workshops.

Factor in things Faire-goers purchased from the many independent artisans / Makers at the Faire, and Maker Faire Austin seems to have had a nicely positive impact. Add on the encouragement current and future Makers received, and that's an even better story:)

I love GM, our Detroit automakers and the heritage of American made cars - but that doesn't mean they get a free pass... Here are my quick thoughts - I suppose what makes this sting the most is what GM was saying a few years ago.

While Toyota was introducing the Prius, 's Vice Chairman Bob Lutz was quoted as saying it was a publicity stunt and "it was kowtowing to the shrill screams of a handful of a nutty environmentalists living in California communes, or something like that."

Harsh!

During the same time - At GM he "introduced car buyers to the V-16 Cadillac Sixteen concept car, sporting a 14-litre engine (a typical four-cylinder engine is about two litres.) GM also introduced the new Camaro at around that time, and other muscle cars, all under the watchful eye of the Czar... (who also gave us the Dodge Viper in a previous life.)"

GM also owns Hummer, but they're trying to sell it off now - so far no buyers.

There was more... "DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has defended remarks he made dismissing global warming as a "total crock of s---," saying his views had no bearing on GM's commitment to build environmentally friendly vehicles."

So here we are getting asked to bail them out, most of the people I know don't have the same sentimental thoughts towards GM as our parents and grandparents do.

We've all heard the famous 1953 quotation from the former General Motors president Charles E. Wilson — that what was good for our country was good for G.M.

I think it's extremely important to debate and research global warming but to not address the market with more fuel efficient cars that consumers want and to also taunt an entire state in the USA didn't really help in the past and I think it's still not helping in the current crisis. What good for GM *is* good for the USA - It's an odd place we're in right now, it took decades to get here and unfortunately it will take decades to get us out - can GM (and all of us) wait that long?

Mr. Lutz is now heading up the Chevy Volt launching in 2010 - I'm looking forward to it and I hope this is a new beginning for GM. I don't mean to single Bob out but he's the one that talks to all of us.

The Extended-Range Electric Vehicle that is redefining the automotive world is no longer just a rumor. In fact, its propulsion system is so revolutionary, it's unlike any other vehicle or electric car that's ever been introduced. And we're making this remarkable vision a reality, so that one day you'll have the freedom to drive gas-free.

Chevy Volt is designed to move more than 75 percent of America's daily commuters without a single drop of gas.(2) That means for someone who drives less than 40 miles a day, Chevy Volt will use zero gasoline and produce zero emissions.

Unlike traditional electric cars, Chevy Volt has a revolutionary propulsion system that takes you beyond the power of the battery. It will use a lithium-ion battery with a gasoline-powered, range-extending engine that drives a generator to provide electric power when you drive beyond the 40-mile battery range.

Thoughts? Post up in the comments!

Control your VCR with a text message.

The best part about this project is the availability of the cameras. I was able to pick up a USB web cam for $10 at a local bigbox store. The antique cameras I picked up on ebay for $1. Actually, I picked up (2) cameras for $1 each and the shipping was only $5. That was a great deal. You can easily pick one up for less than $10 online or a local antiques shop.

What you need:

• Antique folding camera - Available on ebay for $1 - $10
• USB web camera - Available for $10 - $20
• Heat-shrink tubing
• Rosin core solder

• Soldering Iron
• Glue Gun
• Arms of Assistance - Make you own
• Fume extractor - Make your own
• Miscellaneous hand tools - screw driver, needle-nose pliers

Step 1: Purchase the cameras

First you need the cameras. Scour the Internet, check local antique shops, or ask your friends. These types of cameras, both the antique camera and web cam, are readily available and they are very affordable.

Step 2: Remove the lens

Start by opening up the antique folding camera. There is usually a switch somewhere that slides over so you can load the film.

We're really liking Discovery's new show, Time Warp - it's the perfect combination of science, woohoo! moments, and how things work. The hosts, Jeff Lieberman and Matt Kearney, both have an infectious sense of curiosity that make the show really fun to watch.

Do you know how your dog uses its tongue to drink? In what exact way a face contorts when punched by a UFC contender? What happens when an egg falls into the pinwheeling blades of a fan? Or an apple is hit with a bullet? Using the latest in high-speed photography, the Time Warp team takes some natural events (a cat licking its paw, a champagne bottle being opened) -- and some not-so-natural (a water balloon to the face, a raw piece of chicken exploding) -- and turns them into a thing of both beauty and learning.

Time Warp recently filmed EepyBird's Diet Coke and Mentos fun - the episode is called "Stone Breaking" Do your own messy experiments with the Diet Coke and Mentos kit from the Maker Shed!

I love this Robotic Genie shirt at Design by Humans - appropriately emerging from an oil can. via Super Punch

The Android G1 is pretty much ready for the public to use, but it is still not done. One of the reasons I wanted the G1 was to follow the process of developing a product from initial release. The phone and its systems work ok, well enough for product release. In a few years, months or weeks, it will be much better. The fact that the phone and its systems are being developed in an open manner is one of the most powerful aspects of it for me.

The innovation of the Android system and G1 phone is not limited to just employees, but explicitly involves the community of users and developers to make it a better system. If we decide that it should be better, we can change it without waiting around for some research group at corporate to get the resources to identify, solve and implement a solution.

Consider the the original ipod. If you put that collectors' item in the hands of a recent ipod touch user, they would experience little other than frustration. With a low res black and white screen that had no touchscreen interface, small mechanical hard drive, short battery life, heavy clunky form factor, drm locked music formats, lots of tactile buttons and a wide collection of other currently unacceptable design traits, it was enough to transform the music industry and modern culture. Apple had to start somewhere.

Steps
Often, the Design Process is presented as a series of steps that you go through in developing an idea or product. They (usually) include: Identify a problem, Gather information, Propose solutions, Choose the best idea, Test the idea, Evaluate and Communicate. There are many different versions, no set list covers all the ways people interpret the Design Process. As you get more familiar with the use of the process, you tend to skip around inside it as your project needs dictate.

Looping
In the image above, and in many other descriptions of the Design Process, it is shown as a loop. In considering a project to work on, you find a problem to solve, gather information, try out an idea, test it and evaluate. If you solve the problem, move on to another problem or aspect of the project that needs attention. If you don't solve the problem, you have some more information about what won't work. That information gets incorporated in your next go-round.

Making it right
As you cycle through the Design Process, your product should be getting better as you go. The more you identify problems, pose solutions, test them and implement them, the device, program, product or project gets better. New problems arise the more you work the process. If you nail the biggest ones first, eventually you have something that works pretty well and are fine tuning after a while. It is possible to over do this fine tuning part, causing the project to never see the light of day. It is also possible to short circuit this phase. Ebay, second hand stores and the dump are full of examples of products which did not get enough exposure to this phase.

Delivering
When your product is sufficiently complete, and you have resolved the most pressing problems determined in the process, it is time to deliver. This does not mean that the project is done forever, instead, it means that it is ready for more testing in a real world environment. As you (and your team, as may be the case) see the product in the world, you will hopefully be looking at it for examples of where it can be changed and improved. As you find aspects of the project that need refinement, you make a plan for revision and implement it. Hopefully these flaws you find at this point are not tragic enough to seriously stall or ruin the project.

How do you use the Design Process? Have you introduced it as a development technique when working with creative people? Have you taught it to kids? What are your experiences with developing ideas partially or fully by looping through these steps?

Post your ideas, experiences and observations into the comments!

From the MAKE Flickr photo pool

Mightyohm gave a broken phone handset new life in the form of bluetooth functionality - by repurposing a discarded, semi-functional headset -

Upon receiving it, I proceeded to rip the headset apart, interested to see what was inside. I found a fairly simple PCB with a discrete bluetooth module in the center. The PCB is not labeled, but given that this is an older headset (3-4 years old) most of the connections are large enough to attack with a pencil iron and solder wires to.

This headset was begging for a project.

This hack shows how to stuff a Nintendo Gameboy inside the housing of a TI-83 series calculator. We've seen the cool things these calculators can be hacked to do, but we haven't seen someone take it this far. Unfortunately, I think it would be more impressive if he got the TI-83's hardware to play Gameboy games, rather than just soldering the keys to the original Gameboy's controller. Oh well, still a nice site with lots of pics of the build.

GameBoy Color inside a TI-83 series calculator

Arms22 shares this oddly stealthy example of DIY audio - converting a couple of empty grandes into computer speakers using a TDA1552Q amplifier chip. Nice reuse - looks natural too! The relevant page is in Japanese but you can still check out the schematic - Coffee cup speakers

This tutorial shows each step necessary to build a MIDI clock to sync to Little Sound DJ or NanoLoop on a Nintendo Gameboy in order to output beats to the midi instrument of your choice. It lets you synchronize up to six copies of LSDJ or NanoLoop simultaneously to a MIDI clock. Check out this relatively cheap build at the link below.

How to Build a MIDI Clock to Game Boy Sync Thing for Around AU$15

Of all the bizarre subsidiaries that big companies can find themselves with, Harmony Agricultural Products, founded and owned by Honda Motor, is one of the strangest. This small company near Marysville, Ohio produces soybeans for tofu. Soybeans? Honda couldn't brook the sight of the shipping containers that brought parts from Japan to its nearby auto factories returning empty. So Harmony now ships 33,000 pounds of soybeans to Japan. An inveterate tinkerer, Honda also set up a center nearby to develop better soybean varieties and improve agricultural processes.

This is from a company that sold 21 million internal combustion engines for cars, motorcycles, lawnmowers and boats last year. But there's nothing Honda (nyse: HMC - news - people ) hates more than waste, and there is nothing Honda likes more than an engineering problem. Indeed, how else to explain why Honda has studied the maddeningly evasive cockroach (for anticollision technology), decoded the rice genome (to increase crop yields and create more-productive crops for biofuels) and developed a robot that can get instructions by reading human brain waves (to learn how machines and humans can better coexist).



Longtime auto analyst John Casesa, who now runs a consulting company, says, "There's not a company on earth that better understands the culture of engineering."



The strategy has worked thus far. Honda has never had an unprofitable year. It has never had to lay off employees. In the fiscal year that ended in March, profit grew 12%, to $5.1 billion, on $84 billion in sales. In the U.S., which accounts for 43% of Honda's sales, vehicle sales are up 7% through July, even as the industry slipped 5%. The company sold more vehicles in July than one member of the old Big Three, the Chrysler Group.

Want some clock? Saw off a piece...

Want some radio? Saw off a piece...