Playaflies (PDF how-to)
Remember the Playaflies? Here’s a PDF on how to make your own! – Link.
Bicycles
Bike tube rubber bands
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have a one minute project, bike tube rubber bands – Link. Related: Bicycle dual inner tube system – Link. HOW TO – Bicycle Frame Protection – Link. Inner tube chair seat caning – Link. HOW TO – Make an inner-tube wallet – Link. Life belt from old inner tubes – Link.
Office chair bike
Woodenbikes writes – A recumbent bike with a very comfy seat. It’s a 35 pount leather executive office chair connected to a 16″ (little girl’s) Princess bike re-welded into a recumbent (recliner bike) and using a piece of another donor bike frame. I built it in honor of “Bike to Work Day”. Office chair bike […]
The Magnificent Revolutionary Cycling Cinema
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.
HOW TO – Make DC Bicycle pedal power generators
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 […]
The sideways bike
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 […]
Playaflies
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 […]