A product design student at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK wanted to address the problem of prevalent bike theft so he created this bike for around US$30. It doesn’t say whether this was just for the frame or for everything. And no, it doesn’t melt in a rainstorm. He used hexacomb board, which is […]
Dark Roasted Blend has a gallery of seriously strange and guiltily entertaining car accidents. Oops! – Weirdest Accidents
A middle school student in GuangDong, China made a bike washing machine, not many details but ready for a re-make via Tim. More: DIY lamp from an old washing machine barrel. The pedal powered washing machine. Non-Invasive washing machine cycle detector project.
Although we’ve seen train car record players before such the kind that “drive” over the record platter itself and play tracks as it moves in a circle. This “Sound Chaser” is actually a train track made from old records that have been spliced together to look like a real track. As the train drives over […]
Nice alien/dragon car from Krasnoyarsk, Russia! More: Mechanical alien.
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool: Pico Hydroelectric Generator in 5 gallon bucket developed by Sam Redfield and tested at La Florida in Guatemala. The generator is meant to be a very small, cheap, low impact generator designed to be used with existing gravity fed irrigation, fresh water, or waste water systems.
The “WaveSynth 2.0” by Leo Peschta is a digital instrument that creates sound through the use of mechanical valves in a water basin and an array of sensors to detect the pattern and movement of the waves. The resulting data is sent to a computer which then synthesizes the data into a sound composition. Nice […]
