Posts Tagged ‘car’

Make a $2 Adjustable Smartphone Car Mount

Sometime it hard to find the right smart phone car mount to fix on your car. This diy smart phone car mount is adjustable and easily completely moveable/removable without harming your car in any way.  It can also be adapted to hold any mobile device that weighs about one pound or less.

Note: Do not attempt to use this mount if it in any way impedes your ability to drive with total concentration on the road or if it’s use would be illegal in your location.

Some of the material you need:

1.  a 1/2″ PVC Tee coupling – make sure that the center opening is threaded.  The other two don’t matter.
2.  a 1/2″ PVC Street Elbow – it should have male threads at one end and female threads at the other.
3.  a 1/2″ PVC Nipple of whatever length will suit your car/height/posture.  This is basically a tube male threaded at both ends.
4. heavy duty plastic coated wire (I had “multipurpose wire” lying around, not marked but seems to be about 14-16 gauge)
5. adhesive backed craft foam – half a sheet or so should do it.

Alternately  – if you already have some kind of holster or other commercial cradle device feel free to use that instead of making your own from wire.  Or heat form thick plastic sheets/carve from wood/any other craft you have skills to utilize.  Fashion an appropriate way to attach it to the nipple tube.  Gravity is your friend.  So is friction.
Example: if you use a belt clip type holster already you may be able to just slip the clip into the nipple tube or put a small wire loop on the end of the nipple that can hold the clip.

My post here is just the summarize of the diy smartphone car mount. For complete guide you can follow the link below.

via instructables

Spider car

This Spider car is made by a group of Canadian artists. Just how interest can make a group of man to go this far. Hopefully they can research further and make this into a Spider car that can climb mountain and overcome difficult terrain. I am pretty sure a lot of Arm forces will be wanting to buy them.

World first racing car that is run on chocolate

This formula 3 racing car is made from woven flax, recycled carbon fibre, recycled resin and carrot pulp for the steering wheel. The racing only need to run on biofuel that is made from chocolate and animal fats and is lubricated with plant oils. This racing is not only to promote envronmentally friendly car in fact it is really fast. It is capable of reaching a  top speed of 135 mph, can achieve 0-60 in 2.5 seconds and is turbo charged to give it more torque.

The car will make its first competitive debut in the Formula 3 Championship final at Brands Hatch on 17th October. After getting approval from drivers such as Lewis Hamilton and Adam Carroll as well as F1 team boss Ross Brawn.

via sciencedaily

Your steering wheel mate; Wheelmate

Wheelmate

Caught in traffic jam, this seem to be a quick solution for you to have your lunch/dinner/breakfast inside your car or carry on working with your laptop. You may have to push your driver seat back a little and driving with this thing attached to your steering wheel will likely breaks several local and state laws. There is a safety precaution written on the product box saying, “For safety reasons, never use this product while driving.” Seem to advise you to pull over before you start having your food or computing.

via crunchgear

First ever flying car on sale

Transtion Flying Car

This is the world first ever flying car on sale. Look at the video to see how it fold up it wings. This machine is called The Transition, there are two seats, a steering wheel, accelerator and brake pedals, but no gearstick. It only take just 30 seconds for it to transform from a plane into a car. It is also equipped with a GPS and had both the rear-facing propeller and wheels powered by one engine. A full tank(76-litre) cost just US$40 dollar and can fly 800km. Already 50 customers is on the waiting list for this US$200000 flying car.

Source: terrafugia