Paul Freedman (aka Fossil Fool) will be providing musical entertainment at Maker Faire via human-powered bike-stage! In case you’re not up, Fossil Fool is a bike rapper – A bike rapper is like a regular rapper, but instead of showing up in a car and rapping about cars, I show up on bike, and rap […]
This 2.5 metric ton bicycle bus built by students at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands has 32 seats where each rider must pedal to power it. A good way to describe it would be the Flintstones car meets a Viking oar-driven ship meets your local fitness center. Multi-Rider Bicycle Bus [via]
This “Walking Bike” by maker Max Knight exchanges its tires for 8 pairs of sneakers and some crazy wheel modifications. Each sneaker even has a black ankle sock to give it that “leg” look. Pretty cool idea, check out the video link below. SuperTed Walking Bike video, [via]
Keep an eye out for good salvagable parts, especially around spring cleaning time – Several months ago I was walking home from the post office, nearing my place I saw it was “clean-up week”, the curb dotted with various piles of junk people had put out to be disposed off by the council pickup. The […]
Don’t forget, the March meeting is tonight! I’ll be speaking on “Darkside Rocketeer,” my article from Volume 13 of MAKE, about self-taught American rocket scientist Jack Parsons, co-founder of JPL and Aerotech. Tom Lee will be speaking on low-cost approaches to bringing WiFi to Arduino. The Skinny: 7 PM – 9 PM (ET) ALWAYS FREE! […]
When I was a teen rocket geek, I had an almost fetishistic fascination with launch controllers. In our rocket club, we could afford only the most basic single button/key/light controllers wired to a car battery. But we could dream… about devices such as this beauty, a fully tricked-out 12-channel wireless control system for fireworks. DIY […]
Finally on-the-go zen for today’s busy traveller, the Buddha Machine from FM3 plays nine different drones successively, with lengths ranging from 2 – 42 seconds long – The machine has its own built-in speaker, in case one would like to fill a room with the drones, but there is also a headphone jack for more […]
