Bicycles

RepRap achieves replication

RepRap achieves replication

Good news on the fabin’ front – the RepRap achieved replication via BoingBoing. Adrian (left) and Vik (right) with a parent RepRap machine, made on a conventional rapid prototyper, and the first complete working child RepRap machine, made by the RepRap on the left. The child machine made its first successful grandchild part at 14:00 […]

RGB SpokePOV

RGB SpokePOV

Appears a user over in the Ladyada.net forums has built an RGB version of the SpokePOV device – pretty impressive. No word on video display capabilities :[ – (brace for advertising blitz should that ever happen) [via Ladaya’s ranting] Related: Light up animated Pac-Man bicycle wheels In the Maker Shed: MiniPOV kit

Eliptical bike interview

In this video, Kristin White from TalkTech interviews Bryan Pate, co-founder of PT Motion Works about his elliptiGO glide bike, which is powered by an elliptical training motion. If you missed the elliptiGO at Maker Faire this May, this video is a good introduction. As a former ironman competitor, Bryan explains why this bike is […]

Clock from bike parts

Guy Vardi writes in: The clock is build out of bicycle parts. One of the design principles was to use only used elements. Edison once said that to invent you need good imagination and a pile of junk. The designers took his advice seriously. The Bike clock was build by Yedidya Vardi and Vladimir Zviagintsev […]