Posts Tagged ‘DIY’

Combination of Supercar and Superbike

This is by far the weirdest diy i ever seen. The combination of Supercar and Superbike. I wonder is the bike the one controlling the direction or is the car steering wheel responsible for it? This DIY project done by Frenchman François Knorreck, took him over a 10 year span in which he spent over 10,000 hours building it from the frame up. The combining of a car and a bike definitely involve some tricky engineering to balance it properly.

There are a total of 3 exhaust pipes. The hubs and brakes come from a VW Golf GTI, the wheels are from an Audi 80, headlights and blinkers came from BMW and Renault cars, the bike’s headlight comes from a Kawasaki 1000 RX bike, the tail lights from a Citroën Xantia car and that’s a 3CL motorcycle used. The bodywork was made from 63 custom molds.

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Batman Golf Cart

Golf is getting more and more popular these days. But the design of golf cart do not seem to have much changes. This just happens to have been created by a Warner Bros employee who works in LA.  This batman golf cart definitely feel more robust and fast as compare to the old type of golf cart. Hopefully his creation will soon be a part of the tour of the studio, at least it should be added.  There is no current tutorial or any hint on how this was made.  This is just a picture that someone captured while on the studio grounds, so there really isn’t much information at all to go with it.

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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

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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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Incredible Master Chief Halo XBox 360 Case Mod

This Master Chief Xbox case mod is one of the most incredible case mods we’ve ever seen here. Not only is it highly detailed and professionally done (are there pro case modders? I guess so) but conceptually it’s just brilliant. Having him blast through the gaming console and having the force of blast appear to be coming out of the opposite side of the base is just insane (yes yes I’m familiar with the two halves of an arrow attached to a headband thing so it looks like an arrow went through your head). Let’s take a closer look:

So it looks professional because it was backed by some big $$$$$. Microsoft had this case mod commissioned by Richard Taylor to celebrate the sale of the one millionth console in Australia and New Zealand. They’re even auctioning it off for charity.

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