This Instructable is interesting because it lets you run a gas generator on propane and also might serve as an introduction to adapting fuel inputs more broadly. Anyone know whether this would work as-is with methane instead of propane?
Here’s a useful tutorial on how to harvest a motor from a waching machine, including a section on how to use bridge rectifiers to produce DC from an AC motor. Supposedly these are ideal for driving wind generators, so check out your wind exposure, make an inexpensive generator, and start charging some batteries! (via hack […]
Chad sends this on how John Sweeney survived the recent bad patch of weather in the Northeast by using his hybrid car to power many devices in his house. During an ice storm last week Sweeney, of Harvard, Mass., powered his house by hooking it up to his Toyota Prius. The Prius, a hybrid vehicle, […]
Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of MAKE and CRAFT, is on the road this week and writes: On a visit today to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, I got a quick tour of the collections, a place where objects not in active use are stored. One thing caught my attention: a wooden […]
The Synthinetic user-powered noise box just begs to be played with, and it most definitely looks the part – To play the instrument the player has to turn big square knobs that turn the motors and slowly electricity is fed to the circuit, power is stored in capacitors that slowly charges. The instrument will start […]
Anonymous writes – I was real interested in music theory and how to computationally create something aurally pleasing. Though the square waves may not be aurally pleasing (for most), I was able to make a PIC-based organ that played random chord progressions. The resulting cardboard music box makes sings a pretty sweet tune – dig […]
Paul Freedman (aka Fossil Fool) will be providing musical entertainment at Maker Faire via human-powered bike-stage! In case you’re not up, Fossil Fool is a bike rapper – A bike rapper is like a regular rapper, but instead of showing up in a car and rapping about cars, I show up on bike, and rap […]
