New Project, Second Blog

My final project this semester is to build a bike stand that allows a bike's rear wheel to rotate and spin a blender designed for this purpose.

I'm working in a group with Debbie and Alex, and we even made a new group blog! Come check us out!

We're working with a community youth group in Nicaragua who use their bike-blender to blend smoothies at local soccer games to fundraise for their group. The bike stand they're currently using permanently attaches to the bike and doesn't allow for them to quickly change their bike from stationary to mobile. We're trying to design a stand that is: 

-lightweight 

-easily adjustable to accommodate for different bike designs/widths/heights

-able to be put under the bike by one person

-foldable/transportable

-able to be made with local Nicaraguan materials

-several other things that you'll need to read about in the blog!

If you like bikes, engineering, and lots of brainstorming/prototyping, you'll really love the new blog, appropriately titled Bike Stand Final Project. Final project documentation is due December 9, so until then check in twice weekly (Mondays and Thursdays) to see what we're up to. I guarantee it will be awesome.

Bike Stand Final Project blog.

(Mostly written by me.)