I always enjoy riding my bicycle in new places, so I was very excited to hear that a bunch of makers will be riding to the San Mateo County Fairgrounds in the morning. Join the ride from Dolores Park with the Rock The Bike crew and other two-wheeled enthusiasts. I’ll be riding into town to […]
[Photo from Connors934 on Flickr] There are these great bikes at Maker Faire from XtraCycle. There is an extension that is bolted on in the place of the rear wheel. The chain is also extended so that it can reach the rear sprocket. Instead of a rack, there is a huge back deck, and along […]
My bike’s paint job is looking pretty sorry these days, which I guess makes it less likely to get stolen, but doesn’t get much drooling out about town… Instructables user Panda Face shares some awesome bike painting tips for a pro-looking job minus a large chunk of cash.
Garth Johnson recently got to attend the Kinetic Grand Championship, a human-powered art vehicle race across road, land, and water between Arcata and Ferndale, California. He took a lot of nice video and included some anecdotes of the more eccentric aspects of the competition over at Extreme Craft.
[Image from Electric Vehicles are for Girls] Nikki Bloomfield pointed this one out to me yesterday while we were talking about EVs. The idea here is that if you want to do an electric car conversion, but are not fully confident, you can join others and take an online course through the Electric Cars are […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Matt outfitted his headgear with some quick-n-dirty AC – I was bored one day at NYCR and started playing with my rising collections of motors. Ended up stuffing an 18v motor into my bike helmet and putting two 9vs in series on it. Runs awesome. Surprisingly effective as a cooling […]
As the current Space Shuttle mission (STS-125) comes to a close, the Shuttle is nearing the end of its functional life, its final mission slated for 2010. On a recent visit to Downey, CA, near Los Angeles, I had the chance to visit a series of buildings, now empty, that were the birthplace of the […]
