Posted in News, Renewable Energy, Vehicles on Oct 30th, 2007
A streetcar that recharges itself during breaking, eliminates the overhead wires commonly found on modern streetcars. This technology could improve and eliminate some barriers from streetcar’s in modern city public transportation.
The Railway Technical Research Institute in Kokubunji, Tokyo, has developed a streetcar powered by a lithium battery that can recharge in under a minute. The [...]
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Posted in Diy, How To, Videos on Oct 30th, 2007
This week on Systm, the guys over at Revision3 put together a motion activated silly string shooter. They used a common motion flood light to trigger the project. The project also used compressed air and a solenoid to press the silly string can. My only issue with this project, is that I would think you [...]
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Posted in Diy, Experimental, Videos on Oct 29th, 2007
With an electric motor, two juice caps, a lighter and some sugar, this guy was able to spin some cotton candy.
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Posted in Blogroll, Diy, Experimental, Videos on Oct 29th, 2007
My project launched a payload with GPS, camera, sensors and communications to an altitude of 30km. I obtained most parts ready years ago, but only recently had time to finish it.
High altitude ballooning is an emerging hobby, since price of GPS and communications equipment has gotten quite low. It is an excellent hobby for people [...]
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Posted in Diy, Experimental, How To, Rc, Vehicles, Videos on Oct 26th, 2007
This weeks systm features underwater ROV’s.
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Posted in Diy, Experimental, Vehicles on Oct 24th, 2007
24 Year old Nigerian physics student builds helicopter, using two cars.
Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, seen here, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters from the parts
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