Bar http://web.media.mit.edu/~tim/pix/barsteps.html
Kite
www.zeroprestige.org/sewakite.pdf "Find Wind, Find Water R.I.P" lol!
Board
www.mit.edu/people/robot/zp/zeroprestige.html
Discuss.
hahaha perfect. """Make the chicken strap long, so you can fully depower your kite while unhooked.""" i like that one the best, as if u would unhook with that contraption.
At the end of the kite making one it says . . .
Attach lines
Find water and ...
RIP
is that rip the kite or rip as in die when you use that crazy thing ??
i like the idea of a trust worthy wooden bar covered in resin and held together by rope.. especially the part without having knuckle guards so wen u fishpole the bar the lines chafe away on the top of ur hands..
great idea for all the beginners out there.. learning on kti you built urself.. u can never go wrong
Hahahah!
You gotta love Zero Prestige !
www.mit.edu/people/robot/zp/zeroprestige.html
They are the guys behind Monkey Kites .
Suddenly I don't mind paying $1800 for a kite, in fact it seems cheap after reading that....The boards on the other hand, look sh1t hot and after reading the reviews handle even better. I'm starting mine today!
oh no they cant be serious! Macgyver eat your heart out mate, this guy has obviously been watching too much mythbusters or better homes and gardens. Me thinks that guy is headed for the darwin awards. He must really hate his job if he refuses to spend the same amount of time working, and earn the money to buy the kite made by the eperts.
Here is the EI 124x38 Backyard Door
Great upwind double concave progresive flex good pop great for surf, flatwater, freeride, wakestyle and NO STYLE!
working on 2009 model the "Shed Door"
Don't laugh this is prehaps what some kite manufactures use to make their kites...
cheap flops i find make the best foot pads... well they did work on the board i made as a bit of a joke for $30 all up
once at pinaroo i found half a car bumper and tried riding that.. it didnt work.. think i was too under powered
http://www.progressiveengineer.com/PEWebBackissues2002/PEWeb%2033%20Dec%2002-2/Anders.htm
www.zcorp.com/
www.mit.edu/people/robot/
FYI, Tim Anderson, the guy who built all this stuff is actually a mega-millionaire, retired by age 30 on royalties from some really cool inventions, mostly inspired by mucking around with other people's rubbish.
Wouldn't it be nice to get up every morning, do whatever you felt like (e.g., paddle an outrigger canoe from Florida to Cuba, or fly to Australia to go camping) or just go to wherever the wind was blowing -- just because you can?...
(and don't overlook the fact that most of this stuff was created between about 2000-2001, before a lot of kite companies had even invented decent safety releases. -- ever seen an Naish AR-5 or North Rhino 1 chicken loop?)
Hi Spacemonkey! and kiters, www.zeroprestige.org was around as a kite surfing design info hub way back before 2000 when there where very few kite companies around.
If you know anything about kite surfing you may recognize some names in one of his new companys working on renewable energy.http://makanipower.com/griffith.html
Don Montague, Pete Lynn etc....
It is good to see an Aussie working on great projects.
About makanipower.com
In 2006, less than two percent of the world's energy consumption was supplied by renewable sources. One reason for this is the relatively high cost of producing renewable energy. Makani Power is seeking to harness high-altitude wind energy to produce energy at an unsubsidized real cost significantly below that of the least expensive coal-fired power plants, the current benchmark of the lowest cost source of power.
About zeroprestige.org:
Zeroprestige was an experiment in open source hardware i was involved in while a student at MIT. The principle characters were Eric Wilhelm, Tim Anderson, and myself, Saul Griffith, with frequent genius and CAD help from Axel Killian. MIT shut the server down that had the archive but the best bits can be found here:
