DIY Combat Robot
Posted in Blogroll, Diy, Experimental, Rc, Robots, Vehicles on Mar 12th, 2008
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Archive for the 'Vehicles' Category
Rechargeable Lithium Battery Powered Street Car
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 [...]
Systm Podcast: Underwater ROV
Posted in Diy, Experimental, How To, Rc, Vehicles, Videos on Oct 26th, 2007
This weeks systm features underwater ROV’s.
Homemade Nigerian Helicopter
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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If this isn’t DIY, then I don’t know what is. This family set out to make a RV Camper on top of a fifth wheel trailer.
Concept Car: Lincoln Mark VIII With Folding Doors
Posted in Vehicles, Video Games on Jul 10th, 2007
“Lincoln executives were concerned about the heavy and wide doors on the Mark VIII in the early 1990’s especially in large cities with tight parking spots. They were toying with the idea of a Mark VIII that had doors that disappeared beneath the car which would require no additional space for the doors to swing [...]
Design by a dutch company the Carver One is a engineering marvel. The technically two seat machine is balanced with a complicated control system called Dynamic Vehicle Control (DVC) system. The system uses motors instead of gravity to tilt the vehicle based on speed and acceleration. The vehicle achieves a jet fighter type feeling when [...]
DIY Hover Board Video
Posted in Diy, Experimental, Vehicles, Videos on Oct 3rd, 2006
This video of a hover board brings back memories of the old Back to The Future II movie. This guy made what is a small controllable hover craft, which seems to be controlled by a hand remote.
Cool video of some guys Jumping a house with an RC car. It looks like a Nitro powered RC Car. The RC car lands with only the cover coming off.
DIY Fuel Injection Conversion Mod
Posted in Diy, Experimental, Mods, Vehicles on Jun 30th, 2006
If you have an older automobile and envy the modern fuel injections systems, this is for you. Finkbuilt blog is showing the conversion of a carbarated 1973 BMW 2002 into the modern age. The system comes compliments of Megasquirt DIY fuel injection kit. With a series of blog posts Finkbuilt describes the journey in this [...]