Chris writes in with some great bike sculptures! – I’ve been making sculptures with broken bicycle components and finally got round to taking photos of them. The sculptures are harder to make than you’d think because they are bolted together using existing holes rather than welded like the stuff you sometimes see in stores. The […]
New devices that can turn heat into sound and then into electricity @ ScienceDaily! University of Utah physicist Orest Symko demonstrates how heat can be converted into sound by using a blowtorch to heat a metallic screen inside a plastic tube, which then produces a loud tone, similar to when air is blown into a […]
If you’re in to old bikes check out the Japanese Bicycle History Research Club & the intro essay History of the ordinary in Japan by Yukio Ootsu – Documented information on high wheel bicycles in Japan is extremely scarce. It is quite incomplete and seems quite impossible to prove when the first ordinary appeared in […]
After watching this video about a Rhoades Car, I checked out the couch bike, hulabike, treadmill bike, and other projects from the Bicycle Forest blog. It’s worth a gander if you’re into bikes! While you’re there, check out the bikeCAD software for making your own bike to your specs! – Link
Here’s DIY bamboo bicycle trailer you can email for the free plans… – Materials You’ll need eight lengths of material capable of withstanding bending and compression, tubing or angle iron are ideal. You also need eight “spokes” that are good at taking tension. These could be wire, chain, or steel strip. Exoticists could use Titanium […]
Here’s Paul Gierow’s “big ball of connectivity” – satellite communications anywhere, anytime, via a blow-up antenna – No, it’s not a giant beach ball. It’s an ultralight, ultraportable antenna tucked inside an inflatable shell that can pull down a superfast broadband satellite connection at any location. The GATR-Com is designed for disaster-relief responders, far-flung video […]
Pop Sci on the Fab@Home project – Roboticist Hod Lipson wants you to stop shopping and use his portable 3-D printer to make your own stuff. As a child, Hod Lipson lost Lego pieces constantly. Now the 39-year-old director of Cornell University’s Computational Synthesis Lab can build replacement parts on the spot. Completed last year, […]
