You can do this with a dynamo (i.e. bike lights) and a USB outlet on any bike. That would be genuinely useful!
You can do this with a dynamo (i.e. bike lights) and a USB outlet on any bike. That would be genuinely useful!
You'd need to full wave rectify, smooth, and voltage regulate the outut, so not entirely straightforward. But definitely do-able. I still don't know why we haven't seen more wheel-driven dynamo lights with battery backup tbh. The technology is obviously mature enough to handle that now, and it'd remove the big downside to dynamo lights (i.e. they only shine when you're moving ). It'd be a fairly natural enhancement of that to include a USB charging port...
I just attach a rope to my tablet and drag it along behind. I can't see the need for this at all. This is since I upgrade to military hardware though. Before that, with my old tablet, I had to gaffa tape it to my dog which ran behind and was fine too until this one time it rolled in dead hedgehog or something and my tablet stunk and got like these maggots in it. I think the dog knew that Apple lawyers were on our scent so I can't complain too much as I got to keep the illegal device and evaded capture.
I suppose this would be good extra protection for my old tablet but as a bundle I think the bike needs some hub gears Alphine 11 speed and discs. 'Tardcycles' are for weirdos that are into artistic cycling and if you don't know what that is you're lucky not to have had your mind poisoned with images and ideas that scar for life.
HSK (02-10-2011)
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