Posts Tagged ‘coffee’

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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Coffee Stacked Cup

When it comes to coffee cups they should have character.  It’s just not nearly as much fun drinking your regular cup of coffee when the cup is incredibly bland.  Now you can have this cup that looks like 3 cups all stacked together.  When in fact it’s actually a single cup that holds 12 fluid ounces of your favorite hot beverage.

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DIY soup can coffee bean roaster

Definitely a good a way to reuse your metal can after you have empty the contents inside. By combining the can and a cordless hand drill you will get an automate coffee roaster. According to the person he spend less than 10bucks and 30min to build this device. What he does is cut and fold vanes into the drum to aid the tumbling. A second soup can drum focuses the heat from his stove-top burner. For more detail in building this device you can visit his site at angelfire.

Here is a video of it working.

Look at some of the lovely beans spinning inside.

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DIY Magnetized Coffee Sleeve Doubles as Third Hand

Finding ways or place to hold your coffee while you search through your bad or need to do something that require both your hand. With this diy, you can just stick your coffee to any lamp post or metallic object. You can easily make your own version of this by snagging reusable coffee sleeves online, or making your own. Attach a couple of strong magnets, and you are ready to use it.

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Coffee-Making Robot

You are right to argue that there are already so many type of coffee mixer machine around. Why do we still need a coffee robot which take longer time to prepare coffee than the coffee mixer machine? Dun you find the robot is cute and when your are bore it may be nice to watch it make coffee to kill some of your bore time. Anyway i think this just show that how advance Japanese is when come to making robot.

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