Cycle Powered Cinema

So a project I was working on a while back was a bicycle powered station which could be used to play films, power smoothie makers or any other fun bit of tech you can think of.

Here is a video by WeeFeet of us building our fantastic invention in Tayside Recyclers:

Thanks to electric pedal and Dundee Solar Cities we created this fantastic gizmo which enables us to power appliances up to about 200w by hooking it up 1 to 4 bicycles and pedalling.

We had an event showcasing our new cycle cinema for the students but children started turning up and loved it so much that they wanted to keep cycling even when the film was finished, great success even with the horrid weather.

So far this wonderful invention has been used all over Dundee to showcase films and to get people to think about how much energy they actually consume in a fun way.

The next steps are to have a month of films all round Dundee with site specific films, who knows we might be having a film showing in your garden :)