Finally, a personal blimp – “The goal of this work is the creation an aircraft capable of silent, steerable, sustained, and affordable flight. No such craft exists today. Construction of the first human-carrying Personal Blimp is complete. Tethered flight testing began in Q2 of 2006. Free flight testing is expected to begin in August of […]
Start to finish Car PC build from Corsair Systems – “What’s a CarPC? Simply put, it’s a PC that goes into your car. This can be easily and clumsily done with a laptop and a stereo that has a line-in adapter, but for a more permanent and elegant solution, you need to do some tweaking. […]
Cparada writes in with some more clues to origins of the wood motorcycle – “This “Holzmotorrad” has been around a while – The (VERY old) 25 HP Honda has been remade as an Alabama Harley in some photos. There’s something odd about the streetscape, buildings, cobblestones… and a pair of VWs). In addition to RatBike, […]
Check out these incredible LED bicycle wheel animation using the SpokePOV kit. Mario scoring points, a running mouse, rock’em sock’em bots and Duck Hunt! – [via] – Link. Related: POV projects – Link. Light up animated Pac-Man bicycle wheels – Link.
Ken writes – “Here are bicycle panniers made from a couple of dog-food storage containers and a lot of duct tape.” – Link.
Xddorox writes – “You asked for it, here you have it. Wheel bearings on a bicycle are an important part of bicycle maintenance and by making sure that everything is well lubed in there, you can avoid costly bicycle repair down the road. Well lubed bearings also provide an easier ride.” [via] – Link.
Dan and gang at Instructables made an awesome electric chopper, he writes – “Fully electric powered monster chopper bike with whopping four-foot forks. An integrated hub-motor and battery packs concealed within the fork make this a snazzy, stealthy cruiser…The main features of this bike are that we used an electric hub-integrated motor, and we used […]
