Charge your iPod with your bike

This reminded me of an older DIY version for an older iPod, from (the late) Mark Hoekstra's blog Geek Technique:

http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/511

Tangent: Mark was a true hacker. I randomly found geektechnique a long time ago while screwing around on some random project (playing with an SGI Indy or a Mac Classic, perhaps), and kept coming back. Later, I was contemplating a cellphone bike charger after moving to Holland and remembered his iPod version. I thought "this idea had to have come from a Dutch guy". Sure enough, he lived in Holland, and I wanted to thank him for all weird projects he'd inadvertently helped me with over the years.

Unfortunately he passed away in 2008 (heart attack while on his bike), so I never got a chance to buy him a beer. :(

Everyone should go check out his site, it's full of other fun projects (he helped pioneer "hacking Ikea" as a concept).

http://geektechnique.org/projectlab

Good idea but it was executed a few times already prior to this.

See:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/01/motorolas_bike.php

http://gizmodo.com/231766/motos-bike+powered-phone-charger

http://fablab.waag.org/content/usb-bike-charger

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8166196.stm

http://www.mobileapptitude.com/?p=747