All-Electric 18WD Off-Roading
Forget four-wheel-drive, this electric vehicle speeds over all-terrain with 18 powered wheels.
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Learn to Build Your Own Lithium Batteries with Micah Toll’s New Book
Micah Toll’s new book, DIY Lithium Batteries: How To Build Your Own Battery Packs, is full of practical advice for building batteries.
Sourcing Parts to Create the Cutest Racing Go-Kart Ever
Designing and building the Chibi-Mikuvan go-kart for the Power Racing Series was no easy feat.
An Unassuming Electric Vehicle
With the goal of illustrating “the simplicity that alternative energy vehicles could embody,” George Schnakenberg curated and built The Sleeper Bike, an electric motor-assisted bicycle that also sports a stylish look. The San Francisco-based design director handmade the leather battery bag and retrofitted the bike frame with a Hill Topper electric bike kit from Clean […]
Meet Cybraphon – the autonomous emotional robot band
Simon Kirby sends word of a hot new group destined for stardom and driven by solenoids. Ladies & gents, put your hands together for – Cybraphon! […] a robotic orchestra in a large display cabinet, inspired by 19th century automata. The unusual feature of Cybraphon is that it is emotional. It’s mood is shaped by […]
Electric motorcycle made from junk
This laid-off fellow in Omaha, NE built himself an electric-powered motorcycle mainly out of junk. He also built a windmill and a small solar system to charge it. Electra Green
Electric cars and the smart grid
Photo from Connors934on Flickr A few years ago, I got really into electric cars. Not enough to build one, but certainly enough for me to do a pile of research, find a free electric truck for two students to work on, and to buy another electric car that sat in my garage for a few […]
