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Custom guitar designer Brad Wilson makes the ultimate birthday present

By Charles Trowbridge
Jun 5, 2013

Brad Wilson had exactly one week to finish his custom-design guitar for a commissioned birthday present and, at that moment, he was thinking about starting over. The guitar still needed a camouflage paint job, a Colorado design for the pick guard, a painted neck and all the wiring -- basically,...
Photos: Silicon Junkies' eye-popping entry in the Red Bull Creation contest

By Charles Trowbridge
May 3, 2013

Most people don't happen to have thousands of LED lights lying around a workshop. And most people don't have two 3-D printers and other tools needed to create an interactive light display controlled by cellphones and containing more than 3,000 bulbs. But for Boulder's Silicon Junkies, all these pieces add...
Slow Money pushes for big results

By Charles Trowbridge
Apr 30, 2013

When the Slow Food idea began back in 1986 in Italy, it was simply another innovative concept regarding sustainable agriculture. But as its founder, Carlo Petrini, continued to build a following and expound on the potential benefits of stopping the spread of fast food, the concept caught fire and turned...
A Day Without Hate: High school movement spreads to CU-Boulder, Governor's mansion

By Charles Trowbridge
Apr 26, 2013

In 2007, Seung-Hui Cho, a student at Virginia Tech, killed 32 people in one of the deadliest campus shootings in U.S. history. About 1,500 miles away, Ben Reed, a teacher at Standley Lake High School in Westiminster had seen enough. But little did he know what his search for a...
Evan Ebel: Killer's ankle monitor worked fine -- so why did it take days to know he cut it off?

By Charles Trowbridge
Apr 24, 2013

Evan Ebel, the man thought to have killed pizza-delivery man Nathan Leon and Colorado prison chief Tom Clements, cut off his electronic ankle bracelet, and it took his chief probation officer nearly four days to do anything about it. Ebel was a hell-raising inmate and a model parolee. The question,...

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