The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Here’s how to make DC Bicycle pedal power generators from the folks as Science Shareware – Here you can learn to create your own green power electricity using a pedal power bicycle generator. We setup the 24 bicycle power generators at the 2007 Coachella Music and Arts Festival, 60,000 people a day for 3 days […]
Being dyslexic, just looking at the videos of Boston-based bike-builder Michael Killian’s “sideways bike,” makes my noggin throb. You ride and pedal the bike sideways, and steer front and rear (independently). His site has numerous videos, pics, and links to media coverage of his various bike projects. The Sideways Bike [Via] – Link Related: The […]
Here’s a portable open gaming platform called “Virtual Cogs” based around the LCD screen from a PSP. Originally intended as a demonstration, they seem to be willing to make some for interested hobbyists. They have also started adding things like cameras and a GPS to it, Thanks David! – [via] Link.
Jason made a DIY space invaders clock using propeller-generated video on a vintage Sony tv, he writes- I started out today with the goal of just displaying the time digitally, but I got sidetracked with the idea of representing the time with icons instead. I ended up going with this spacer invaders concept, using the […]
Showering + Tetris – Link.
I’ve only been to Burningman once and I couldn’t help but look at things as electronics projects and kits – one of projects “playaflies” consisted of LEDs inside ping pong balls and then attached to wires/PVC pipe, at night when attached to a bicycle they take on the movement of the rider as they move […]
Chris writes – Hey Maker Community, most of us have a fond memory of Lego as children, here’s a site to rekindle that blockly love! Here’s a step by step, one simple method to creating your own Lego mosaics. I take you from raw image, through to sourcing the bricks and then final assembly. Any […]
