Wooden bike
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Kenpower posted up this wooden bicycle from China “I snapped this wooden bike on a trip to Kashgar, China. It’s a bit heavy, but really works. Note the unconventional steering control!” [via] – Link.
Made On Earth
Gadgety car
What is going on here? [via] – Link.
Carriage of War
Pillowcase writes “I made a baby carriage for warwalking, because I had no car… It has (had) a boombox and car battery to power it all, so that it would announce the found nodes with text-to-speech (and play some of the fight club soundtrack)…” – Link & photos.
LED POV helmet
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Elemenoh writes “This is my “Light Emitting Diode Persistence of Vision Helmet”. I made it for my Gizmology class this semester. On the end of the black arm is a vertical row of 8 red LEDs that are attached to a chip which controls the rate at which they flash. […]
The Heatsink from hell
Jschuch writes “So, the title of the eBay auction was “large rectifier”, and sure enough the photo showed a couple of what appeared to be large heatsinks with stud diodes inbetween them. Opening bid was $0.99, and the seller is near my house (a clearance business that moves thousands of ebay lots per day) so […]
Steam Tank: Gold Medal Best of Show, RoboGames 2006!
Congratulations to MAKE pal I-Wei’s Steam Trilobite Tank winning the Gold Medal of Best of Show RoboGames 2006! – Link.
A view from 66,000 feet up
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Jcoxon77’s writes – “View from the side camera on Pegasus I at approx 66,000ft. The Pegasus High Altitude Balloon project is a UK based amateur student run project that involves launching payloads to “Near Space” (between an altitude of 60,000ft (20km) and 325,000ft (99km). This is achieved through the use […]