Maker Faire Bay Area 2024
Pedal Powered Stage
Home: California, United States
Work as a team with other faire goers to power up local bands on bike generators. See how much peak power you can produce with your friends! Local acts from the Bay Area music scene share their gifts with us as we support them with good clean pedal power, making for a connected and fun performer-audience connection. Musical tastes range from rock, jazz, world, and funk, often danceable. Thanks to our hyperefficient sound system with its class D amplifiers there is a surprising amount of bass and spacious audio clarity when all 12 bikes are full and pedaling. So come enjoy your lunch and delight in local grooves, then take a turn on the bikes and power up the band! Wander over to our circuit table and see how we do it with a unique mix of ultracapacitors and lithium batteries.
http://rockthebike.com
Maker
Rock The Bike
Based in North Oakland, Rock The Bike innovates and sells event-oriented pedal powered activities including Fender Blender line of bike blenders, Off The Wall electricity generators, and more.
What Inspired You to Make This?
We wanted to make it more fun to join the bike movement. We noticed bicycle advocates were using a lot of guilt trips to grow the people powered transportation movement, and we saw an opportunity for something more fun, more social, more inspiring that still gets people in the mood to pedal and open to replacing car trips with bike trips in their own lives. We had had transformative experiences at music festivals and wanted to bring our unique offering to make festival music stages more fun and green.
