DIY

DIY Carbon Fiber Touchscreen Tablet PC

Yesterday i posted someone using lego to build a printer. Today i found another awesome DIY, this guy actually built a touchscreen tablet PC from scratch and are customize to his preference. He actually bought a MSI netbook and tear it apart to use it motherboard and screen. Here the list of others part he use to built this Tablet PC.

- Motherboard and screen from MSI X320
- Resistive Touch Screen
- Intel 40GB SSD
- Port USB Hub
- Accelerometer (ActionXL Wired Controller)
- USB Wireless Adapter
- USB Bluetooth Adapter
- Carbon Fiber Kit

via carbontablet

Lego printer (Self made and is workable)

Watch the video, this is a real working Lego printer. This person designed/built/coded it all from scratch including analog motor electronics, sensors and printer driver, the USB interface uses a “wiring” board. It took him about 3 weeks working evening to complete this lego printer.

CarPuchino: The Coffee Powered Car

It’s the world’s first coffee powered car! The Car-Puchine was created by BBC1’s Bang Goes the Theory program out of a 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco. Surprisingly the car can hit up to 60mph.

It takes a little over half a pound of coffee for every mile driven or about 56 espressos per mile (how many frappes per mile is that? about the same?). Cheap coffee costs around $5 per pound, so we’re talking about $10/mile. By comparison at $3/gallon for gas and 25mpg, that’s about 12 cents per mile. And lets hope you don’t want to fill up on Starbucks premium roast…forget about it.

Of course that doesn’t factor in having to stop every 40 miles to add in more coffee grinds and then every 60 miles to change the coffee filters. I’m going to assume you are buying pre-ground coffee and not grinding your own beans, cause that would be just silly. But at least the car probably smells fantastic. You can make back some of that extra cost by saving on car air fresheners and of course coffee breaks.

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Create 3D portraits with 2 Nikon D90 camera

Alex Fry and Jamie Nimmo has combine 2 Nikon D90 camera together this will allow them to take 3D portrait for their upcoming 3D photography exhibition “Stereo Portrait Project” in Sydney Australia on 27th May. Below is a short description of how the 3D camera work and assemble.

They used off the shelf hardware and software, from the cameras, lighting, triggering, post production to the printing of the book. They shot using Nikon d90’s with shutter cables connected to an RF trigger. The Lighting system was three Nikon sb900’s, one connected via pc sync in a soft box, the other two optically slaved.

A custom camera rig was needed to put the cameras as close together as possible, roughly emulating the distance between the human eyes. A number of prototype of this camera rig was created before the success of this present custom made camera rig. Since mostly the picture to be taken are mostly portraits, they have decided to mount the cameras vertically base to base.

To synchronize the cameras they used an RF trigger split out to two preload shutter release cables. They manage to get a reliable sync up to 1/160 speed. Giving them the ability to have people move around, talk to them and not inhibit their performance. This was very important since hands in front of the body look fantastic in 3d.

The image pairs were then sorted using Aperture before being exported into Nuke, where final tweaks were made before combining them into the final Anagylphic 3D images.

Aperture made sorting and tagging hundreds of very similar left and right images much more manageable, while Nuke allowed them to simply adapt many of the same 3d workflows we use in their day jobs as stereoscopic visual effects compositors.

via nikonrumors

Homemade Chinese Lamborghini

A 25 year-old Chinese mechanic decided to build one Lamborghini himself since it too expensive too own one. All together the parts and material only cost him $3K and the finished product is capable of reaching a top speed of 60-90 mph. Hope Lamborghini people are aware of this Chinese man and recruit him to be part of their design team.

via autoblog