Precious

Photo Credit: Make: Magazine

"Precious" is the name of the bicycle modified by New York makers Zolty, Mattias Gunneras, and Michael Lipton of Breakfast. The project started when its rider, Janeen, had decided to ride across the US on the TransAmerica Trail to raise money for LIVESTRONG. The crew at Breakfast wanted to lend support and saw it as an opportunity to create something different and exciting.

They ended up outfitting Precious with a new "brain" consisting of a custom microcontroller board, GPS, and GSM module. Temperature, humidity, speed, cadence, grade, direction, and location are sent to the cloud via SMS. This data is then processed and displayed on the bike's website yesiamprecious.com

Precious's brain is an on-board device that captures all of his experiences, combined with a cloud-based system that analyzes those experiences. Put this all together and get a bike that's able to express itself in his own words. He shares his up-to-the-moment thoughts, and has a subconscious which allows him to dream about all he’s been through. Take a peak into how his brain functions below...

Join Precious andJaneen as they attempt cross this country and  raise money for LIVESTRONG (Something I am a supporter of) as part of Team Fatty. Follow every sweatin’ mile, every dog chase, every brain fart Precious has, and then show your support by donating to their LIVESTRONG Challenge page.



Website

http://yesiamprecious.com/

Follow the bike on twitter
http://twitter.com/yesiamprecious

Rider's Blog
http://nodirectionknown.com/blog/

Read More on Make:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/08/tweeting_bike_on_cross-country_trek.html
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/08/meet_precious_the_bike_that_tweets.html