Donald Bell

Love the inclusion of drive shafts to keep the motors out of the water. Very cool, and fast too!

Love it, and love the story behind it. I need one for my cubicle.

Another great project, Greg! This is my introduction to the Heltec board and those super-affordable motor divers. I love discovering new finds like that. Thanks!

This is such a great resource! Thanks Becky.

It's great to have this project here. I urge you to credit the original designer, Nicole Catrett (http://www.nicolecatrett.com/#/eastward/). She wrote the guide for Make, and she makes lots of other cool stuff you should check out too.

Cool project and outstanding documentation! Great work, Scott.

Outstanding! I'm excited to try this one. Great tips on smoothing the print, as well.

Love it! I just got a printer this weekend and I'm eager to print some of your designs Greg.

Another great project, Greg!

Beautiful!

Hallelujah! This looks promosing. Thank you!

Hey Scott! Sorry for the late reply. So cool that you got Bluetooth working. To clarify, I actually used a second Arduino with a simple smaller motor shield from Pololu to just run the tail back and forth now and then (nothing interactive). I just could figure out how to run both the mouth motor loop and the tail motor loop in parallel on the same board without slowing down the mouth motor sensitivity.

What could go wrong?!

Totally, check out Scott's warping infinity mirror project: https://www.instructables.com/id/Warping-Infinity-Mirror/

I expanded the existing holes with a step bit. I did not drill new holes.

Well, I do have a second rim! I just thought that black would provide a better contrast to the rainbow lights. But hey, I'll embrace full rainbow-pink-princess-power mode on the next one.

Great question! I came at this project just excited to find new uses for the scrap pieces from this bike. But the more people I show it to, I'm frequently asked if there's a way to make this so it can be usable as a functional bike wheel. I think the answer is that it's possible, but dangerous, because each new hole (not reinforced by a spoke) will only weaken the rim. On a bike traveling at high speed, that could be a dangerous point of failure.That said, if anyone was to attempt it, I'd suggest using this flatter style of weatherproof LED (https://www.adafruit.com/product/738) or (https://www.adafruit.com/product/3631). The slimmer profile would likely fit in the channel better and leave room for the tube.A more practical solution would be to apply it to the outside of the rim. I'm cu...

Great question! I came at this project just excited to find new uses for the scrap pieces from this bike. But the more people I show it to, I'm frequently asked if there's a way to make this so it can be usable as a functional bike wheel. I think the answer is that it's possible, but dangerous, because each new hole (not reinforced by a spoke) will only weaken the rim. On a bike traveling at high speed, that could be a dangerous point of failure.That said, if anyone was to attempt it, I'd suggest using this flatter style of weatherproof LED (https://www.adafruit.com/product/738) or (https://www.adafruit.com/product/3631). The slimmer profile would likely fit in the channel better and leave room for the tube.A more practical solution would be to apply it to the outside of the rim. I'm curious to try out some solutions. You can find my email in my bio and contact me directly. I think it would be neat to work on a project like that.

I think that I haven't had enough coffee! Now that you've got me thinking, what it really needs is a little servo-driven arm to close it up once it reaches a minimum light threshold. It's the twilight hours that confuse it.

Thanks Loek! You inspired me.

Thanks Audrey! I'm trying to make time for getting more projects up on Instructables. The content here provides so much for me, it's nice to give something back.

You bet. Though now that I'm looking closely at those AliExpress ones, I don't see any indication that the tail moves. Still, I'm curious to see how close it is to the original. It definitely would be great if there were a $15 source for these things.