These folks are putting together a bicycle powered cinema. 10 bikes with simple DC generators attached powering a speaker and projector rig. It can be seen at the Big Chill festival in the UK this year and other places to be announced later – Link.
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 […]
We’ll stock all these kits in the Maker store as they become available :) – a fantastic article by Freeman Dyson… Our Biotech Future – The New York Review of Books – Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs […]
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 […]
Intelligent bookshelf demo from Freshcreations using RFID. From the pages of MAKE: RFID for Makers. MAKE 06 – Page 160. Subscribers: Read this article now in your MAKE Digital Edition or get MAKE 06 @ the Maker store.
TVeditor writes – A soothingly quiet trike driven by a 7-ft., pedal-powered propeller. I spend a month a year working on a commercial fishing boat with a loud diesel engine, and the greatest sound in the world is to hear it turn off. Recumbent trike built from aircraft-supply cro-moly tubing and salvaged bike parts. Prop […]
