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What’s Inside: Anatomy of a Monowheel

What’s Inside: Anatomy of a Monowheel

Dave Southall

By Dave Southall

Dave Southall

Dave Southall has been a street performer, acrobat, university lecturer, special effects technician and lately, a TV presenter. He has a degree in electrical engineering, a Ph.D. in electronics, a master’s in 3D design, and a shed.

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Monowheels, by their very nature, are fairly simple machines; after all they only have one wheel! They work by driving a seated base around the inside of a circular track to push it forward — you might think of them as a perpetual roller coaster.

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Biking to 10 Fab Labs in the Netherlands

Biking to 10 Fab Labs in the Netherlands

Madison Worthy

By Madison Worthy

Madison Worthy

Madison Worthy is the director behind Self-Made, the story of creative communities. She graduated from New York University in 2011 and is now on ​a mission to merge her artistic and scientific sensibilities.

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Miriam Engle

By Miriam Engle

Miriam Engle

Miriam Engle is a professional nomad and the writer for our filmmaking adventure. Since graduating from The College of William & Mary in 2011, she has lived and worked across five continents.

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Editor’s note: Madison Worthy and Miriam Engle are biking across Europe, visiting different makerspaces, and filming Self-Made, a documentary about their adventure and the Makers they meet. You can find the other parts to this series at the end of this article.   Bicycle is the way to experience the Netherlands. The country is flat […]

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Stylishly Port a Passenger with this Wine Barrel Bike Trailer

Stylishly Port a Passenger with this Wine Barrel Bike Trailer

By Jason Babler

Jason Babler

I'm the Creative Director of Make: magazine.

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My father-in-law, Craig, is one of those crazy weekend Makers that gets a wacky thought in his head and actually makes it happen. Here, he took an old wine barrel and an unused bike stroller and made something quite *ahem* intoxicating to ride around in. In his own words: First, I got a free Burley child trailer that my […]

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DIY Bluetooth Intercom Links Riders Helmet to Helmet

DIY Bluetooth Intercom Links Riders Helmet to Helmet

By Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy is an engineer with 10 years experience at his full-time profession, and has a BSME from Clemson University. Outside of work he’s an avid maker and experimenter, building anything that comes into his mind!

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If you ride a motorcycle with another rider, you may decide that an intercom system would be an excellent way to communicate without constantly shouting. You could buy a purpose-built unit, but what fun would that be? This Instructables article by “Stuffman” shows you how to hook up a bunch of components with (if all the […]

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