Cyclomerisation: Modular Human-Powered Transport System
Saul Griffith, Eric Wilhelm
Thu Jan 31, Fri Feb 1, 10am-05:00pm, E15-023
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 16-Dec-2001
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: An innate desire to build cool & whacky human-powered transp
Fee: 120.00 for pending underwriting of materials; amount may decrease
Following last year's demand for the printed bike workshop, we are running another, though the format and time required will be a little different. This year we will be building bicycles and other human-powered transport from an industrial modular components catalogue with sundry connectors fabricated on a waterjet. We will build a set of parts that defines an erector set for human-powered transport. Now it's a bicycle, now it's a tricycle, now it's a tandem, now it's a recumbent,.... now its a skootcycleboard....well, you get the picture (see web site). You will learn CAD (Autodesk Inventor), a little about bicycles and possible bicycle geometries, how to use a waterjet, a sandblaster, circular saws, tapping and other hand tools, and perhaps how to anodize. More info on the raw materials at www.8020.net You will need to write a short paragraph about what type of crazy bicycle or human powered device you would build if you had a LEGO-esque modular transport kit. Registration limited to 12-15 people on the merits of your application.
Web: http://www.media.mit.edu/~saul/8020
Contact: Saul Griffith, e15-320M, 253-5554, saul@media.mit.edu
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