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.
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.
DIY Macro Lighting LED Ring
A while back we had a piece about the power of using LEDs in photography. In that article we had a very primitive LED ring light. In this guest post, Tim Brook shares a much better way to create a LED ring light.
Browsing through the dealextreme website, I came across these LED car headlight rings and thought that they’d be ideal for making a Macro Lighting Ring so I placed my order and had a go.
Categories: DIY, Hacks Tags: DIY, dslr, macro ring
DIY Soft iPhone and iPad Stylus
Maker Adam Kumpf from the design firm Teague in Seattle demonstrates a DIY soft conductive stylus for use with an iPhone, iPad, or any other device with a capacitive touch screen.
We’ve been experimenting with conductive foams and fabrics in search of a middle ground. Fortunately, it’s quite easy to make a soft, conductive writing tool using some pretty basic materials. All you need is a pencil, an anti-static sock (such as this one, with X-Static in the foot area which contains conductive silver thread), and some patience to cut and sew it all together.
How-To: Make little green army men from paracord
Instructables user seamster produced this cool little DIY-posable-army-guy tutorial for their ongoing Paracord Contest. It’s OD cord over a wire armature, with one foot glued to a cardboard base
