No-friction bicycle dynamo light kit
Here’s a kit (and how to make) a no-friction bike light dynamo. Learn about electromagnetic induction and make a bike light! – Thanks Hone Link.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Wii Loop Machine – Wiimote Beats
From The Amazing Rolo: This weekend I finished the Wii Loop Machine software that I started a few weeks ago. It’s a system for using the wireless Wii remote to sync, control, and manipulate loops in real time. It’s now ready for download as a standalone application…if you have a Mac with OSX (10.4.8 or […]
Art Bikes
Brian @ New York Daily has an incredible set of art bike photos from Josh Hadar in SoHo… Art Bikes (photos) – Link. Related: Art Bikes @ New York Daily photo – Link. Harmony blog – Link.
HOW TO – Make your own instrumented glove
Alex writes – I have always found it a challenge to make things at virtually no hardware cost, using old parts in innovative combinations. Whilst such projects are usually quite time consuming, they do give you the pleasure of “being independent of the industry” and their picture of the state of the art of technology. […]
Sensory gaming
Crunchgear has a really interesting write up of Emotiv’s sensory gaming rig you wear on your head – The prototype device looks sort of like a smaller version of Professor X’s Cerebro mutant locator thing. It’s a headset with three separate arms than clasp around your head. Each arm contains myriad sensors that detect signals […]
Twitter for Make/Craft/Hacks
Some people are obsessed with twitter these days. We’re not endorsing it, but if you’re a twitterer and you want to stay up to date with the makezine blog, the craftzine blog, and the hackszine blog, then you can follow them on twitter and get updates about posts while mobile or on im. Whenever a […]
DIY bike light
Kevin writes – This page describes the construction of a bike light comprising three 3W Luxeon LEDs. This project had three main goals. 1.) Make a light suitable for use in 24-hour mountain bike racing. 2.) Use readily available material as much as possible. 3.) Offer the details to the community and invite any and […]