Month: July 2008

Soft Guitars

The Grateful Thread makes these adorable soft guitars in many styles. Great for rock star pillow fights. Via the CRAFT Flickr Pool. More: HOW TO – Make a Guitar Bag Felted Guitar Necklace Guitar-Shaped PSP Case Knitted Guitar Pattern

Dynohub multi-pole alternator

Dynohub multi-pole alternator

Gotwind is a Ben Jandrell’s (Shropshire, England) DIY site for renewable energy projects. The site has a number of cool projects and technical info and tutorials. Here’s an excerpt from his page on the Sturmey Archer GH6 Dynohub: The Sturmey Archer GH6 Dynohub was designed as a means of generating electrical lighting power for bicycles […]

Cardboard bike

Cardboard bike

A product design student at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK wanted to address the problem of prevalent bike theft so he created this bike for around US$30. It doesn’t say whether this was just for the frame or for everything. And no, it doesn’t melt in a rainstorm. He used hexacomb board, which is […]