A pedal-powered electric recumbent chopper bicycle with flashing lights capable of cruising at 20 mph. Find this project and other alterna-fuel vehicles at Maker Faire Bay Area!
Posted by Nick Normal | Friday May 11th, 2012 2:30 PM
Categories: Fun & Games, Workshop | 7 Comments
Among its multitudinous downloadable resources, NASA offers .3DS models of famous and not-so-famous spacecraft, including the NPP climatology satellite to the ISS. [thanks, Gnomic]
Posted by John Baichtal | Thursday May 10th, 2012 11:00 AM
Categories: Energy, Science | 3 Comments
For me, Concrete Month has been about discovering all kinds of amazing uses for a material that, before, had seemed pretty mundane. But among engineers, that sentiment—that concrete can do...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday April 30th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Education, Energy | 5 Comments
While this no-weld rail bike conversion looks like it would be unsafe at any speed, it does look like a ton of fun (isn't that always the case?). Something like...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Monday April 30th, 2012 3:00 AM
Categories: Energy, Fun & Games | 16 Comments
The Power Racing Series (PPPRS), where grown men and women ride around on souped up toy cars (like the pink Power Wheels Jeep shown above) is gearing up for another...
Posted by John Baichtal | Thursday April 26th, 2012 12:30 PM
Categories: Energy, Fun & Games, Hackerspaces | 2 Comments
Release your creativity and get a good workout at the same time with Drawing Machine #1 by Joseph Griffiths. Part performance art, part kinetic sculpture, this peddle powered apparatus consists...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Monday April 23rd, 2012 3:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Energy, Fun & Games | 1 Comment
Brothers Michael and Kenny Ham have a goal: to create cheap electric vehicles that get people interested in renewable energy.
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Wednesday April 18th, 2012 10:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Electronics, Energy, Home | 6 Comments
Though heavy for its class, this DIY aluminum longboard deck design from Redditor davvik gets high marks for its machine aesthetics and its accessible construction method. The truck mounting plates...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday April 18th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Energy, Fun & Games, Workshop | 2 Comments
The rules of the Dyson car challenge are simple enough. As long as it is powered by the motor found in the Dyson handheld vacuum cleaner, anything goes. And that's...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Friday April 13th, 2012 3:00 AM
Categories: Electronics, Energy | No Comments
Love this fun little scooter that MITERS and GT Invention Studio members built over spring break. [Charles via Adafruit]
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday March 27th, 2012 5:30 PM
Categories: Electronics, Energy | 3 Comments
Dave Heisserer and Dillon Hodapp of Minneapolis, MN, are building the Jiggernaut, a crowdfunded bike-welding jig: Dave and I have wanted to build our own bicycle frames for years. Being...
Posted by John Baichtal | Wednesday March 21st, 2012 11:45 AM
Categories: Electronics, Energy, Fun & Games | 8 Comments
Check out John Graham-Cumming’s ambient bus arrival monitor that he built out of a hacked Linksys wireless router that pulls data from London’s Countdown service and lets him know how...
Posted by John Baichtal | Sunday March 18th, 2012 2:30 PM
Categories: Electronics, Energy | 1 Comment
Get the print and digital versions when you subscribe
