Drones & Vehicles

Bike stripping

Bike stripping

Josh writes in – I’ve been building bikes for a bit now and doing what I can to document the process in between the sheer joy of building and learning stuff. I thought I’d share with the Make crowd what I’m learning and how. I’m starting from only the most basic bike fixing knowledge and […]

Alpha (spoke) POV

Alpha (spoke) POV

Tristan Roddis of blog.cogapp.com writes: Following the great instructions from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, I built one, and then reprogrammed the chip to create a crude persistence of vision device, which could then be velcroed onto my spokes for use as a propaganda tool during the Critical Mass bike ride. Hardware hacking – the next […]

Bikes and sound

Bikes and sound

Dave writes – I saw your posting about bikes that make noise, and thought I’d draw your attention to the Soundcycles exhibition at InterAccess in Toronto right now. Two bike projects that make noise! The Warbike makes music from WiFi networks, details here and a radio interview about it here. The Soundbike laughs as you […]

Solar farm wagon, small biz platform

Solar farm wagon, small biz platform

From AfriGadget comes this item about a solar-powered donkey-drawn farm utility vehicle with 21st century extras: The HAPV (Advertised as HAPPY) is a twist on the ‘horse and buggy’ mode of transportation, making this a donkey, cart, solar panel on a canopy FUV (Farm Utility Vehicle) that is quite ingenious and absolutely AfriGadget. A donkey […]