Laura Kampf Builds a Bike You Can Ride on Water
Have you taken your bike for a ride on a river… and lost it when it sank? Here’s a bike-powered watercraft to avoid such things!
Continue ReadingHave you taken your bike for a ride on a river… and lost it when it sank? Here’s a bike-powered watercraft to avoid such things!
Continue Reading“That looks like fun,” Dawn Thomas said to me. “Let’s build a vehicle to compete in that.”
Continue ReadingCultural anthropologist Eben Kirksey brings citizen science to Brooklyn, using an Arduino and the history of two frogs to educate the public.
Continue ReadingPeter William Wagner bounces across the fairgrounds at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, delighting everyone whose path he crosses. The big purple eccentric-axled bike has two inflated all-terrain wheels that can also function as flotation for the aquatic parts of the annual Kinetic Grand Championship in and around Arcada, California, where this “whim-cycle” has appeared for the last six years. Even Peter’s baby granddaughter enjoys the ride.
Continue ReadingCreated by Li Weiguo of Hubei Province, China, this amphibious bicycle has propeller vanes on its wheels and giant water bottles for flotation. [via reflectionof.me]
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