MAKE subscriber Jennifer Holt of Columbus, OH, wrote in to share her rather overpowered electric mountain bike, running on a 48V motor powered by a homemade battery pack consisting of 144 3.3V lithium ion cells. Data from the battery monitor is logged to an SD card. This is the second of the two electric bicycles […]
Artist/maker/consultant Matt Borgatti just finished this set of amazing steampunk goggles, and was kind enough to answer a few interview questions for Make: Online. See what he had to say and check out loads more process photos after the jump. Tell us about your project. They’re digitally fabricated steampunk goggles. They took over a year […]
A group of researchers from Harvard and MIT have pushed us closer to a world of programmable matter. Their approach is a self-folding surface that can take on almost any shape.
Chris Blazick of Pasadena, CA, wrote in to share his wedding ring, which he had engraved with a binary message. I wanted to write in to share the tale of my wedding ring. It’s a traditional band with a square pattern embedded in it. The squares represent binary. The words of the Claddagh are encoded: […]
After a trip to Copenhagen, Instructable user carkat saw that a lot of people used cargo bikes (with a cargo area in the front) to transport their kids around. He couldn’t afford to buy such a bike, so he cannibalized a couple of junkers, some square steel tubing, and some some sort of what looks […]
Earlier this week I posed bike hacker Pater Wagner’s uni/bicycle. Earlier this month we featured his monster bike. Now it’s his monowheel. No handlebars — presumably you have to lean to steer. But don’t lean too much! What an awesome creation. More: The history of Monowheels Maker of the day – Kerry McLean, 225-horsepower gasoline-powered […]
Branded as the world’s slowest Porsche, artist Hannes Langeder’s handmade Porsche, which he calls the Ferdinand, mocks the culture of consumerism that gives rise to such overpriced commodities as the luxury auto. The bicycle Porsche functions as signifier for the fascination with the figure of an automobile that has lasted since the 1950s; yet Hannes […]
