Human Power Archive Online

g00bd0g writes "Over 27 years of collective engineering wisdom is now available on-line. This publication covers almost every technical aspect you can think of. From fluid-dynamics to biomechanics, composites and engineering. Human powered airplanes, helicopters, submarines, hovercraft, bikes, trikes, cars, etc. Numerous articles by such visionairies as olympic bicycle designer Chester Kyle, Aerovironments creator Paul MacCready and more. Check out how smart folks exchanged information before the internet *gasp*."

Or if you prefer

[tomee]

You can check out Fly Power [flypower.com] instead.

What??!

[Izanagi]

The machines have won!!

I hope the un-plugged will set us free soon!

It would amuse me immensley...

[Anonymous Coward]

...if there were a guy pedealing a generator bike next to their server, and he falls over from exhaustion after trying to keep up with the demnds of a /.ed server.

The first /.ed human!

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[museumpeace]

I thought I was the only person in my town who even knew that you could pedal distances and maintain speeds most people only expect a car can do. [working at an MIT lab means I am not the only person at my office who knows this funny little secret.] I might have missed the establishment of this repository despite my various bookmarks on HPV links to some of the content....but its ok with me if god let there be slashdot and then let me get addicted to it just so I would pick up on this trove as soon as it had a URL. OK, I admit not every programmer also has filled lab notebooks with as many sketchs of recumbent trikes and automatic transmissions for bikes as of code or UML or ERDs. There certainly are software engineers who waddle back and forth between vending machine and workstation but they may not have grokked the essential parallel between cycling and programming: the challenge of wresting unlimited accomplishments from strictly limited resources by dint of hard work.
Of course, if you want most of what's useful science in this compendium without having to suck it all down from the web you could just buy a copy of David Wilson's Bicycling Science [mit.edu]. Sorry, I am not being facetious or cheeky this evening.

oblig?

[cakefool]

I for one welcome our new human powered overlords?