Pedal Powered Computer?

January 15, 2008 8:17 AM

Help me find a website about a human powered computer. Not the MIT supercomputer.

Approximately a year ago (I am guessing here) I saw a web page for a computer that was powered by the user pedaling at their desk. It was a DIY type solution, with lots of pictures. It may or may not have been posted on mefi, I don't recall. I have searched google and mefi specifically and I can't find it.

Its not the human powered super computer I keep hitting on, it was just something someone, or a couple of people, built.

posted by [insert clever name here] to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

I think I know what you are talking about; if I recall it was a physician who had rigged up his computer to an exercise bike so he would not be so sedentary while working at his desk. I'm looking around to see if I can find it.
posted by TedW at 9:16 AM on January 15, 2008

I guess I remembered wrong; this is what I was looking for, but does not sound like what you want.
posted by TedW at 9:19 AM on January 15, 2008

try googling for "human powered computing"
posted by Wild_Eep at 9:58 AM on January 15, 2008

Link for the lazy ;)
posted by samsara at 10:37 AM on January 15, 2008

Was lazier than I previously thought. This one should work.
posted by samsara at 10:39 AM on January 15, 2008

Nathan Phillips, a professor at BU, was written up for his carbon-neutral office that includes a pedal-powered computer setup.
posted by zachxman at 10:53 AM on January 15, 2008

Response by poster: That last one is the closest to what type of set up the page displayed. However, none of the items in question are the page I had in mind. It showed several photos of the set up. THe page MIGHT have had a black or dark color background, but my memory is foggy.

As I have said, I have searched via google. Human nor pedal powered computing bring up the result I was looking for, at least not in the first few pages. Nor do similar searches.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 11:34 AM on January 15, 2008