Star’s pillow hands
Star Simpson came up with this awesome plane-sleeping “hack.” She outfitted a pair of kid’s water wings with sheaths sewn from old T-shirt fabric. Looks comfy to me! Sound Sleep on a Long Flight
Drones & Vehicles
Del Cruiser’s “junkfiets” project
Del Cruiser has been working on building a “bakfiets” (box bike/cargo bike) from junked bikes and parts. He’s keeping a photojournal of his progress on Flickr. This project was inspired by the “Carrier Pidgeon” , which is a chinese-made imitation that has a shorter payload. By nature, bakfiets take some time getting used to due […]
Easy-to-build tissue and balsa model planes
Rubber-power.com has some really nice, quick and easy-to-build rubber-band-powered model planes designed by MAKE subscriber Darcy Whyte. There are free, downloadable instructions on the site and info and video on building, flying, and repairing these simple model planes. Model Airplane Power by Elastic Rubber Band
Makeshift handlebar smartphone mount
Maker Sebastian Dwornik needed a way to mount a mobile device to his mountain bike in order to field test some software he’d written. His solution, though crude, turned out to be quite effective.
Bikes Not Bombs – Creating opportunities
The other night I checked out the volunteer night at Bikes Not Bombs in Jamaica Plain Boston. At the end of the night, there were about a dozen volunteers working together to “flatten bikes” so they could be efficiently shipped to Ghana in West Africa. The crowd was mostly young adults with a balance of […]
Solar sunflowers at Austin’s Mueller development
Austin’s new development at the site of the old Robert Mueller airport includes a small solar farm consisting of fifteen of these lovely blue “solar sunflower” collectors, designed by Cambridge’s Harries/Héder Collaborative, whose concept was selected from a pool of 37 applicants to Austin’s Art in Public Places program. Details of the project are available […]
Tour de France chalkbot
I was disappointed to see this chalk-printing trailer, for the riders in the Tour de France, is towed behind a truck, not a bike like it’s predecessor. It looks like it works pretty well, though. The main problem with the original Bikes Against Bush prototype was the huge computer that had to be lugged around […]
