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Andy and Chris meet in ‘the barn’ at the Portland to take another look through the kit and hash out a final shopping list that will allow us to wire up three bikes, two ultra-capacitors, one power-cap and one invertor. Hopefully enough juice to power our test projector, or a fairly decent gig or two? [...]
June 5, 2007
Many thanks to Tom Morgan-Jones of Inkymess.com fame for penning out a ‘crazy top-hat man on bike with projector in hat’ image. Luckily we liked it enough to use his first attempt, as the poor boy has gone down with Pneumonia and out of action for a while. He’s going to have to toughen up [...]
June 4, 2007
Lucy and Andy meet for a quick chat about the design of the ‘conversion pin’ that we’re going to get made to hold skate wheels onto our electric scooter motors. This seemingly simple mechanical problem has been causing sleepless nights for a while, hopefully our conversion pin will mean we can play around with different [...]
May 31, 2007
So four of us meet in the barn to take a look at the small amount of kit that we’ve already got. A newly purchased hybrid road bike with a slick back tyre gets jacked up and we try out a motor with a skate board wheel barely attached. A radio becomes the first test [...]
May 28, 2007
Nick the bike man has been busy and fixed up a fairly decent 2nd hand Hybrid bike that we picked up. Our first to have a super slick 2nd hand back tyre fitted, which is needed to cut down on noise when used on a ‘friction wheel’, like the skate board wheels we’re planning to [...]
May 25, 2007
So we attacked the barn at The Portland Arms, in four hours it went from a big old mess of a place full of crazy ‘pub junk’ that had been building up over the years… To a fairly clean, open space, which will probably be big enough for about 10 bikes set up in there, [...]
May 16, 2007
We realised early on in the project that trying to build a cycle powered cinema was going to take a fair amount of space, with our calculations as they stand, we think we’re going to need at least ten bikes to power the thing. Ten bikes on stands takes up quite a bit of room [...]
May 1, 2007
The idea for The Magnificent Revolutionary Cycling Cinema came about in April 2007, between three people who thought they could somehow make it work. Some early purchases from ebay, borrowing a neighbour’s road bike and some basic tests seemed to prove that bike power wouldn’t be that hard to master. Talking to others with more [...]
June 6, 2007