Buy MP3 player
Posted: 2005-March-5 Filed under: Audio, Projects, The Bike With 2 Brains Leave a comment »I bought a Digisette Duo-MP3 from eBay. It has 32 MB of on-board flash RAM. Experimentation demonstrated that the player will handle monophonic, variable bit-rate recordings and output "acceptable" fidelity at 56 kilobits per second yielding over an hour of play time. The player supports mechanically-actuated forward, reverse, stop, volume-up, and volume-down buttons. These buttons appear to be able to be emulated using solid-state hardware and wired into the circuitry of the player without difficulty.
Original frame design and first copper wire model
Posted: 2005-March-3 Filed under: Frame, Projects, The Bike With 2 Brains | Tags: frame, model Leave a comment »The bulk of the frame is a pair of direct-drive bicycles placed two-feet apart. Triangular parts maintain structural integrity and an overarching roof structure provides support for the windmill generator and to resist bending from the rigors of pedaling.
All four wheels are 24-inches in diameter and the rear wheels caster to allow the front wheels to provide steering as well as propulsion.
The frame has been modeled in 1:15 scale using copper wire. The material and scale were chosen because they were convenient. Although balsa wood and glue would also have worked, 14-gauge copper wire and solder were more readily available. The scale was chosen by printing the CAD drawings on an 8 1/2" by 11" page and then cutting the wire according to the lines on the page.
First copper wire model
Buy ball bearings
Posted: 2005-March-3 Filed under: Power Source, Projects, The Bike With 2 Brains Leave a comment »I hunted around on the Internet for ball bearings to fit a 5/16" shaft but wasn't having any luck. When I switched to metric — realizing that 5/16" is just 0.8% shy of 8mm — I discovered that I should be looking into inline skate bearings. I bought a pack from Pleasure Tools.
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