Bike powered cotton candy
Kai took these photos in southern China in 2006, the sugar is heated with propane but the cotton candy is spun using the bike pedals. ..
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Nintoaster – a Nintendo in a toaster
It’s just an Nintendo in a toaster, but I like it – via Giz. It might be the red LEDs, yes – that’s exactly it.
PIC invaders – animated!
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Jeff familiarized himself with assembly coding language by creating these neat animations – It seems like everyone is using the AVR microcontrollers these days, but you can still do cool things with PIC’s, especially if you’re willing to learn assembly language. Check out this project I made using a […]
DIY Gameplay on the Mignonette AVR platform
Evil Mad Scientist Labs introduces the Mignonette AVR gaming platform, developed by Rolf van Widenfelt, Mitch Altman, and EMS’ own Windell Oskay – The Mignonette is designed to be easy to assemble, and uses a rather minimal set of components– the AVR microcontroller, the LED display, and a pair of ULN2003A transistor driver chips for […]
Pedal Powered World, #7: Bikes Being More Than Bikes
This is part 7 of an ~8-part series I’m doing on bike-powered devices. If you’ve got a link to another device that should be included or a better-documented version of any of these, comment below or email me and I’ll add it to my last post in the series, summarizing all the interesting pedal-powered projects […]
Pedal Powered World, #6: Power Generation
This is part 6 of an ~8-part series I’m doing on bike-powered devices. If you’ve got a link to another device that should be included or a better-documented version of any of these, comment below or email me and I’ll add it to my last post in the series, summarizing all the interesting pedal-powered projects […]
Pedal Powered World, #5: Household Tools
This is part 5 of an ~8-part series I’m doing on bike-powered devices. If you’ve got a link to another device that should be included or a better-documented version of any of these, comment below or email me and I’ll add it to my last post in the series, summarizing all the interesting pedal-powered projects […]
