How to Build a Practical Household Bike Generator

Click the button below to download a sixteen page PDF for an “Ourzine” called How to Build a Practical Household Bike Generator by Kris De Decker and Marie Verdeil from Low Tech Magazine. It is very practical and written for people who actually want to build one in real life and use it to charge specific things. Plenty of practical advice about materials, and lots of pictures.
 

If you click the button, you will notice the pages of the PDF seem all out of order; it is not designed to be read on a screen. But if you print it two sided on a duplex printer it will come out so that if you cut it in half and put one half on the other, you can read it. This pocket sized booklet, zine, or chapbook, we call an Ourzine. Here is a two minute video that explains. (link directly to the video, not the Ourzine page).

Anybody who wants can visit https://rorshok.com/ourzines/ or search for Rorshok Ourzines to find us and to find more Ourzines. There, you can set up an account and make one with whatever you want in it. They’re free and there are others in the Rorshok Ourzine library you can download and print. There is even an Ourzine about Ourzines.

Creating, giving, and receiving text on paper is a time honored way to share knowledge. It’s calm and allows for reflection. No tabs, no scrolling, no links, no cookies, no notifications. There’s a beginning, middle, and end. The Ourzine you make can have whatever you want in it, poems, your or someone’s life story, sector specific news, technical information, advice, conference information and agenda, photos of a trip, a history of something, or a thesis.

What you make is completely private by default but you can mail them to people and of course just leave them around for others to find.

Or you can just download and print this one. We hope you like it!