Stick some playing cards in the spokes and ride off into the sunset with one of these bikes! “These chopper bikes would definitely make you shun your Harley; if all that you are craving for is something out of the planet. The image gallery gives you an awesome tour of the bikes designed to kill. The chopper bikes certainly scores much above their motorized companions, not only because of the
Quite amaizing what some number crunching can do. This device would be easy to market to some of the large casinos where bigger is better. “Some clever fellas at Akishima Laboratories, in Japan, have come up with a way to “draw†words and pictures on the surface of water, using an enclosure surrounded by 50 wave generators. The image is created by water pixels formed from the simultaneous intersection of
After you have made the Make Magazine version of the Hamster-Powered Generator you can scale things up a bit and power some larger items. This would be a great prank for Candid Camera, have an apartment set up with this wheel and have temps come in to power the apartment with it. I could just imagine the apartment owner sitting on the couch watching TV with the wheel spinning
Roger Smith made a great overview of how a Tesla coil is built. Warning, don’t attempt to build one of these as your first electrical project. Roger was also kind enough to give us an interview, here are the interview results. Interview with Roger Smith Hacked Gadgets: How did you get into the electronic/electrical hobby? Roger Smith: I first got interested in Tesla coils when my older brother
Electricity will take the path of least resistance and that path sometimes includes bridging air gaps. These videos show that with enough voltage the gap that can be bridged can be huge.
The first video shows a hand drawn electrical arc. The second shows the final project in operation. Translated. Original. “Picture tubes in televisions and monitors need tensions of several thousand V for the acceleration of the electrons. For the production of this high voltage the Zeilentrafo is responsible. The Zeilentrafo mostly is on the motherboard. CAUTION! The picture tube contains a high vacuum and can with wrong treatment implode!
This Computer Controlled Robot Face needs to be hooked up to an IM client to freak people out “The goal of this project was to create a head that can be used to display information. The face can be a very powerful method of conveying information, and a robotic head can serve as a very useful indicator. This project is meant to provide computer programs the benefit of using
