About: Windell H. Oskay owns only one slide rule, but plans to acquire more. A published playwright, award winning cartoonist, and obscenely creative amateur chef, he has been variously employed as a quantum mechanic, photographer, and (atomic) clock maker. Several people have described food that he has prepared in terms more positive than "edible." He is notorious for disrupting a Shawn Colvin concert (on a first date, even) and for putting (and using) an "Ooga" horn on a bicycle. Some of the other things that he somehow ended up designing and building include an interactive dining table, a carbon-fiber electric guitar, hard-drive wind chimes, radio-controlled hovercrafts, nixie tube clocks, and magnetohydrodynamic-powered boats. In the past year he helped to start a web site called evilmadscientist.com in order to begin documenting this craziness.

Lenore M. Edman, a veteran bike commuter, used to live in Portland, Oregon, where her son Christian got to ride in her bike's sidecar. Abandoning wet for warm, she moved to Austin, Texas, where she designed and sewed her own wedding dress.  Later, as a regular of the Boulder, Colorado weekly cruiser bike ride, she overhauled a mid-century Hawthorne ladies bicycle (named Stella) which she has only crashed once-- and it wasn't her fault.  Since moving to Sunnyvale, California, she has helped to popularize edible origami and has learned to make some wicked curries.  Her college studies in classical Greek prepared her well for her career working with professors, librarians, engineers and scientists.  She recently helped start evilmadscientist.com, a website that legitimizes some of her otherwise nearly inexplicable projects.  

Christian W. Brookfield enjoys going to the Exploratorium in San Francisco.  He is learning to play both the trombone and the guitar, but not simultaneously.  A contributing writer at evilmadscientist.com, he also likes marine biology and electronics.  He rides his bike to school and, like many of his classmates, complains about his homework.  His favorite color is yellow; not yellow like a lemon, but yellow like a school bus.  

Sweet & Evil 3D Printer
This home-built CNC, 3D printer fuses layers of granulated sugar, yielding imprecise and low-resolution but low-cost and sweet objects. Resourceful people could build a similar machine for about $500.