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Pedal powered smoothie maker
A pedal powered blender for making smoothies at festivals and events had always seemed like a great idea. It brings in a number of concepts: firstly there is the ‘we don’t need electricity for...
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'No-welding' pedal generator stand
Renewable Energy Innovation has built a number of pedal generators for both adults and children. Pedal power helps to demonstrate the concepts of power and energy in an interesting way, along with...
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Giant LED bar graph
For a recent project I needed to build a large and obvious bar graph display. This was to show the power generated from a bicycle generator. I came up with this design and was pretty pleased with the...
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Micro solar power system
The best way to learn about renewable energy and solar power is to get hands on and build your own system. Here is a small solar photovoltaic (electricity producing) solar power system which includes...
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Battery voltage monitor
This voltage monitor has been designed to remotely display battery voltage so that people monitor and maintain their batteries easily. It was designed for use on off-grid reneable energy systems (such...
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Bike Lock from Laptop Security Cable
This is a simple and short instructable to make a cable bike lock/bike lock extender from a disused laptop secutiry lock cable, like this. A number of these laptop security cables were donated to my...
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Using Minimus AVR with Arduino IDE
The Minimus AVR is a USB connected microcontroller, which uses the ATMEL 90USB192 microcontroller. Its a cheap re-programmable microcontroller with 21 digital input/output pins. They have been used by...
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Large Scrolling LED display
This is an instructable to create a large (600mm x 400mm) scrolling LED display.This was a project run at Nottingham Hackspace in the UK along with Instructables. Instructables sent the hackspace...
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Inductive Bike Lights
Be seen on your bike with no batteries involved!This instructable shows how to build an inductive back bike light. When magnetic flux passes a coil of wire it induces a current to flow within that...
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Cast a Polymorph Keyring
This instructable covers work I have done while being a Maker in Residence at Derby Silk Mill (http://www.derbymuseums.org/thesilkmill/ ) in the UK.Derby has an amazing history of metal casting -...
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Convert pin badges to fridge magnets
I found a collection of my old pin badges recently and, although I like them a lot, I dont really wear badges anymore. This is an instructable to show how I converted them from badges to fridge...
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Arduino Robots
These are my take on a small re-programmable robot using an Arduino as the brains.These were built as part of my work as Maker in Residence at Derby Silk Mill in the UK.I wanted to integrate something...
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