Speaker for bike commuters
DIY Coffee Cup Bike Speaker from Robert Edwards on Vimeo. Robert Edwards of co(act)lab built this clever amp/speaker inside a travel mug. Pop it into the bottle cage on your bike and you’re ready to roll to the music.
Bicycles
DIY: NES controller bike light
How do you combine your love of video games and bicycling? Make an LED bike light form an old NES controller of course! I had an old broken NES controller lying around, and decided that it would make a cool case for an ultra bright LED bike flasher. It’s designed to be easy to slip […]
DIY: Kilo-Lumen bike headlight
Sometimes lighting up the road ahead of you isn’t enough. Sometimes, you want to light up the entire neighborhood. If so, the Kilo-Lumen bike headlight is for you. I started biking to work this summer and needed a good headlight and taillight. I didn’t want to spend a lot, but I wanted extreme visibility. For […]
Universal bike light battery
Kevin sent in this neat bicycle light made from a recycled Parmesan cheese container. This would make a great addition to a lot of the DIY bike lights that we have featured on Make. [Thanks Kevin] This page describes the construction of a universal bike light battery with eight “C” cell rechargeable NiMh batteries. It […]
Chainless bikes: becoming mainstream soon?
The non-chain on the new Trek Soho It looks like Trek may succeed in making non-chain bikes mainstream. Via CNN: Trek Bicycle is part of a movement to bury the finger-pinching, pants-munching, rust-prone sprocket and chain, and usher in an era of belt-driven bikes that might have the inventors of the self-propelled transportation Schwinning in […]
Pedal to the People – 15-person bicycle-truck
If seeing a tandem bike riding by makes you momentarily pause and have a look, imagine your delay when a 15-person bicycle-truck slowly passes by. Called the Busycle, this bicycle behemoth moves under the power of 28 human legs, plus a driver. And while it can only go about 4 miles per hour, the infectious […]
Pedal Pure – Providing clean water for all could be as easy as riding a bike
Photograph by Nicolas Zurcher Providing clean water for all could be as easy as riding a bike. Or a trike, if Aquaduct has an influence. Winner of the 2007 Innovate or Die pedal power competition, the Aquaduct Mobile Filtration Vehicle stores, transports, and purifies water as it goes. “We came up with ideas ranging from […]
