How to Paint a Bike Frame
A bike restoration master restores the paint job on a vintage CCM-brand bike.
Bicycles
Homemade wooden coaster bike
The CrumleyFamily posted some build photos of their homemade wooden coaster bike in the MAKE Flickr photo pool they made (picture here, start and finish) – “About a year ago, Alli’s Mom pointed out a wooden coaster bike that would be a cool toy for Fuller someday. I had seen pictures of them before and […]
Bicycle with steering wheel and seat
This bike from the 30’s is a bit like a DIY recumbent – Popular Mechanics 1936 – Link. Could this one be the first? Related: Bart Simpson recumbent bicycle – Link. Home-built recumbent tricycle – Link. Unusual Home Built Bicycles from wood and salvage – Link. Bicycle projects – Link.
Bike stereo round up
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race ~H.G. Wells… What’s better than riding a bicycle around? Roll’in with a homemade bike stereo blasting out the tunes… there are some DIY ones and a few you can buy – here we go… Thump: Ultra-light/ultra-efficient […]
Live motion 3D video camera
O’Reilly’s Radar has a brief write up of a “3D live motion video camera that uses LIDAR technology to get a range-finding for every pixel” – you could “scan” an area and put all the 3D data in to just about any application, wow! Link & full image. Related: Google video tech talk about the […]
Color 3D Prints – “Print” World of Warcraft characters
Here we go – 3D printing, in color, of World of Warcraft characters – “With the help of some friends at CADD Edge we were able to get a color 3D print of our favorite World of Warcraft gnome. All we had to do was export our cleaned up and textured models as VRML files, […]
SteriPEN portable water purifier
The SteriPEN looks pretty clever, you pre-filter the water, then dip a UV light in to kill the bugs – $150-ish and it can do over 140 16 ounce water treatments – “SteriPEN is the only portable water purifier that uses ultraviolet (UV) light to destroy waterborne microbes. Whether your source is a woodland brook […]